NC H412

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, to conduct a study on whether licensed health care practitioners should be allowed to use alternative medicine in treating patients.

Study must analyze the benefits and risks of alternative medicine and examine how other states currently regulate alternative medicine use by licensed practitioners.

Department shall make recommendations about which licensed health care practitioners, if any, should be permitted to use alternative medicine and establish a process for approving specific types of alternative medicine.

Department must report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 31, 2011.

Effective upon becoming law.