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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS LDH is moving forward with a plan to distribute food benefits on EBT cards. If the USDA, who administers the SNAP program, is prepared and ready to move money into states’ accounts, we will use federal dollars to fund SNAP recipients’ accounts. If they are not ready, LDH will proceed with our state-funded program to provide food assistance to the elderly, the disabled, and households with children through their existing EBT cards.
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RFP Third Party Liability Activities
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers to perform the following activities as primary for the fee-for-service Medicaid recipient population and as secondary for Medicaid recipients enrolled in Coordinated Care Network (CCN)s after time has expired for the CCNs to bill and collect from responsible third parties: 1) develop and implement a cost avoidance process in conjunction with maintenance of the Medicaid resource file; 2) develop and implement a collection process for seeking reimbursement from liable third party health insurers for medical services provided under Title XIX and Title XXI; 3) perform annual hospital and long- term care provider reviews; 4) augment the fiscal intermediary (FI)’s Medicare Parts A, B, and D recovery efforts; 5) administer the Louisiana Health Insurance Premium Payment program (LaHIPP), and 6) submit optional innovative concepts such as asset verification services, special needs trust services, CMS RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) activities, Express Lane eligibility assistance (data matches with the La. Department of Education, the La. Department of Revenue, etc.) as well as other concepts for consideration and evaluation based on usefulness, practicality, and likelihood of successful implementation.
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RFP for Long Term Care Access Services
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers that provide client eligibility screening, comprehensive assessment services, and service planning and 13 telephone-based information and referral in a manner that provides informed choice and access to services for clients seeking long term care services and supports in Louisiana. The LTC-AS contractor solicited through this RFP will play an integral role as the Department transitions to a system of long term care services and supports that provides clients and their families a choice among various long term care settings, services, and providers.
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RFP for Residential Halfway House Inpatient Treatment Services Region VI
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from public or private entities interested in providing inpatient residential halfway house treatment services for adult men and women and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF eligible women with dependent children under the age of 12 in a free-standing(not hospital-based) setting.
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RFP for Adult Housing
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers that provide housing/residential services for nine (9) adults with serious and persistent mental illness, including those with co-occurring disorders (mental illness and substance abuse) who are homeless or at risk of homelessness due to their mental illness.