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• November 12, 2024

  Home and Community-Based Services Waivers – Community Choices Waiver LAC 50:XXI.Chapters 81, 85, 86, 93, and 95

  Amends the provisions governing the Community Choices Waiver to add a new priority group, specify the requirements for criminal history background checks and database checks for employees, update the Organized Health Care Delivery System (OHCDS) language to reflect the additional CCW services, revise the reimbursement language to agree with the wage floor requirements, and modify the language regarding direct support/service worker wages, other benefits, and workforce retention bonus payments to indicate that Louisiana Department of Health is no longer establishing the criteria.

• November 12, 2024

  Home and Community-Based Services Waivers – Adult Day Health Care LAC 50:XXI.711

  Amends the provisions governing Adult Day Health Care providers in order to incorporate language which allows the department to impose a penalty fee for each month a claim or report is filed or submitted beyond the close of the reporting period.

• November 12, 2024

  Behavioral Health Service Providers

  The Department of Health, Health Standards Section amends the provisions governing the licensing of behavioral health service providers of opioid treatment programs in order to remove outdated eligibility criteria, expand the types of eligible practitioners, adjust the provisions related to take-home doses of medication, and include provisions for mobile dosing units. These updates align with recently updated federal standards. This action is being taken due to the drastic increase in the number of fatal opioid overdoses in Louisiana. To prevent the imminent peril to the health, safety, and welfare of the public, access to critical medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder will be expanded. It is anticipated that implementation of this Emergency Rule will have no fiscal impact for state fiscal year 2024-2025. This action is effective November 13, 2024.

• November 08, 2024

  November 2024 Final Rules

  The Louisiana Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing has submitted Final Rules to the Office of the State Register for publication in the November 20, 2024 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.

• November 07, 2024

  Louisiana PLWH Needs Assessments

  This report was prepared for the Louisiana HIV/AIDS Program (HAP) of the Office of Public Health within the Department of Health and Hospitals. The purpose of this needs assessment is to gain understanding of the current care service needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) throughout Louisiana and within each of the nine administrative regions. In particular, the assessment aims to provide an accurate estimate of the extent of PLWHA’s unmet primary care and HIV-related support service needs, their experiences in accessing those services, the perceived barriers to those services, and some insight into their reported knowledge of those services. Our aim in constructing this statewide assessment was to collect opinions, perceptions, and experiences from a group of people that is as representative of people living with HIV/AIDS in Louisiana as is possible.

• October 28, 2024

  Medicaid Provider Enrollment Rebaseline Project Has Begun

• October 21, 2024

  HCBS Rate Study with Interested Parties

• October 17, 2024

  Ribbon cutting set for new hygiene supply closet at St. James High School

  The project is a partnership between the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) Office of Public Health in Region 3 (South-Central Louisiana) and Aetna Better Health of Louisiana.

• October 15, 2024

  October 2024 Final Rules

  The Department of Health, Health Standards Section has submitted final rules to the Office of the State Register for publication in the October 20, 2024 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.

• October 15, 2024

  Facility Need Review– LAC 48:I.Chapter 125

  The Department of Health, Health Standards Section proposes to amend the provisions governing facility need review (FNR) in order to require residential substance abuse treatment providers, except those that provide services to women, adolescents, or both to be subject to FNR.

• October 15, 2024

  Healthcare Facility Sanctions– LAC 48:I.4603

  The Department of Health, Health Standard Section proposes to amend the provisions governing the licensing of Healthcare Facility Sanctions in order to define the terms sanction and repeat violation.

• October 15, 2024

  Ambulatory Surgery Centers– LAC 48:I.4531

  The Department of Health, Health Standards Section proposes to amend the provisions governing the licensing of Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) to provide consistency throughout the regulations that ASCs are required to obtain a line of credit issued from a federally insured, licensed lending institution in the amount of at least $100,000.