The Department shall establish and administer a Sickle Cell Program. The Commission shall, after consultation with the Council on Sickle Cell Syndrome, adopt rules for the program that shall include, but not be limited to, programs for education, voluntary testing, counseling, and medical reimbursement services for sickle cell syndrome. "Sickle cell syndrome" includes sickle cell disease, sickle cell trait, sickle cell thalassemia and variants.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-129
Department to establish program
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Goetz v. NC DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS. (2010)
Most recently applied in Goetz v. North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (April 2010)
1987, c. 822, s. 2.
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