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• December 12, 2016

  Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities - Licensing Standards LAC 48:I.8595 and 8599

  Continues the provisions of the April 7, 2016 Emergency Rule which, in compliance with Act 540 of the 2006 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, amended the provisions governing intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities to require timely filing of electronic reports related to census information and other needed information during declared disasters or emergencies.

• December 12, 2016

  Home and Community-Based Services Waivers - Community Choices Waiver - Electronic Visit Verification LAC 50:XXI.9305

  Continues the provisions of the April 1, 2015 Emergency Rule which adopted provisions governing the Community Choices Waiver program which mandated that providers of personal assistant services must utilize the electronic visit verification system designated by the department for automated scheduling, time and attendance tracking and billing for certain home and community-based services.

• December 12, 2016

  Home and Community-Based Services Providers - Licensing Standards LAC 48:I.Chapters 50 and 51

  Amends the provisions governing the licensing standards for home and community-based services providers in order to further clarify evacuation procedures and correct the formatting of these provisions.

• December 12, 2016

  Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments - Louisiana Low-Income Academic Hospitals LAC 50:V.2501 and Chapter 31

  Continues the provisions of the October 20, 2016 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing disproportionate share hospital payments in order to establish payments to Louisiana low-income academic hospitals.

• December 12, 2016

  Applied Behavior Analysis-Based Therapy Services - Reimbursement Rate Realignment LAC 50:XV.703

  Continues the provisions of the January 1, 2017 Emergency Rule which amended the reimbursement methodology governing applied behavior analysis-based therapy services in order to realign the reimbursement rates to be consistent with the commercial rates for these services which will be in effect statewide in January 2017.

• November 15, 2016

  Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities – Licensing Standards LAC 48:I.9047

  Continues the provisions of the May 20, 2016 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs) in order to revise the minimum staffing requirements for staff-to-client ratios.

• November 15, 2016

  Nursing Facilities – Evacuation and Temporary Sheltering Costs LAC 50:II.20019

  Continues the provisions of the October 13, 2016 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions of the May 20, 2008 Rule governing the reimbursement methodology for nursing facilities to amend the provisions governing evacuation and temporary sheltering costs in order to ensure that an evacuating nursing facility continues to receive vendor payments while providing essential care and services to residents at a host site when they are displaced.

• November 15, 2016

  Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities – Evacuation and Temporary Sheltering Costs LAC 50:VII.33103 and §33105

  Continues the provisions of the October 13, 2016 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities to establish provisions governing evacuation and temporary sheltering costs during a declared disaster or emergency event.

• November 15, 2016

  Inpatient Hospital Services - Non-Rural, Non-State Hospitals – Public Hospitals Supplemental Payments LAC 50:V.963

  Continues the provisions of the October 1, 2015 Emergency Rule which amended the reimbursement methodology governing inpatient hospital services in order to amend the provisions governing supplemental Medicaid payments to qualifying non-rural, non-state public hospitals.

• November 15, 2016

  Home and Community-Based Services Waivers – Adult Day Health Care Waiver – Transportation Costs LAC 50:XXI.2905

  Amends the provisions governing the Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) Waiver in order to better define the cost categories for the reporting of costs associated with transportation services covered under the waiver.

• November 15, 2016

  Home and Community-Based Behavioral Health Services Waiver LAC 50:XXXIII.Chapters 81-83

  Amends the provisions governing home and community-based behavioral health services in order to clarify the provisions to ensure adequate service coordination and delivery.

• November 15, 2016

  Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments – Inpatient Psychiatric Services – Reimbursement Rate Reduction LAC 50:V.2903

  Continues the provisions of the January 20, 2016 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions of the October 1, 2015 Emergency Rule in order to revise these provisions and to correct the formatting of these provisions to assure that these provisions were promulgated in a clear and concise manner in the Louisiana Administrative Code.