NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 437

HOUSE BILL 101

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INSURANCE ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN ACTS AND SERVICES OF CERTAIN NURSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 58 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting a new section immediately following G.S. 58-259.1 to be designated G.S. 58-259.2, and to read as follows:

"§ 58-259.2  Nurses' services. — No agency, institution or physician providing a service for which payment or reimbursement is required to be made under a policy governed by this Chapter shall be denied such payment or reimbursement on account of the fact that such services were rendered through a registered nurse acting under authority of rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Medical Examiners and the Board of Nursing pursuant to G.S. 90-6 and 90-162.

Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize contracting with or making payments directly to any nurse not otherwise permitted."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of May, 1973.