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This bill extends the North Carolina Primary Care Payment Reform Task Force, initially established within the Department of Health and Human Services, by modifying its existing mandate and timeline. The Task Force is charged with several key responsibilities, including defining primary care across different healthcare sectors, conducting an actuarial evaluation of primary care spending, assessing the adequacy of primary care delivery in North Carolina, studying primary care payment models in other states, and identifying data collection systems to create primary care investment targets. The bill adds new provisions requiring the Task Force to collect healthcare spending data in compliance with HIPAA and mandates that the Department of Health and Human Services develop a comprehensive data security and safeguarding plan that includes guidelines for data access, privacy compliance, security audits, breach procedures, and data retention policies. Additionally, the bill extends the Task Force's reporting deadline to April 1, 2024, and April 1, 2026, and postpones its expiration date from May 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026. The collected data will not be considered a public record, and the bill is retroactively effective from July 1, 2023.

https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S83