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Amends the provisions governing immunizations in the Professional Services Program in order to ensure that the language in the administrative Rule reflects current practices and is promulgated clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code.
Amends the provisions governing the Professional Services Program in order to remove specific clinical information and procedural language from the administrative Rule to reflect current practices and ensure that the provisions are promulgated clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code.
Continues the provisions of the September 21, 2020 Emergency Rule which adopted provisions to allow licensed home and community-based services providers to operate and provide services outside of their licensed geographic areas to existing clients who have evacuated or temporarily relocated to another location in the state due to a gubernatorial declared state of emergency or disaster in Louisiana.
Amends the provisions governing federally qualified health centers to ensure the language reflects current practices and promulgate these provisions clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code, and to remove procedural language from the administrative Rule.
Using a generator safely is a matter of life and death following a storm that causes widespread power outages. In the first week after Hurricane Laura struck southwest Louisiana, almost half of the storm-related deaths (9 out of 20) were due to carbon monoxide poison produced by a gasoline-powered portable generator.
Under the authority of R.S. 40: 4 and 40:5, and in accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, notice is hereby given that the state health officer, acting through the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health (LDH-OPH), intends to amend §§105 and 107 of Part II (The Control of Diseases) of Title 51 (Public Health-Sanitary Code) of the Louisiana Administrative Code. This rule is being proposed to include COVID-19 in the list of diseases and conditions hereby declared reportable as a Class A disease or condition.
Continues the provisions of the Emergency Rule adopted on June 24, 2020 which amended the provisions of Title 50 of the Louisiana Administrative Code in order to adopt temporary measures to provide for the continuation of essential programs and services to ensure the health and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana.
Continues the provisions of the Emergency Rule adopted on March 19, 2020 which amended the provisions of Title 50 of the Louisiana Administrative Code in order to adopt temporary measures to provide for the continuation of essential programs and services to ensure the health and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana.
Continues the provisions of the March 16, 2020 Emergency Rule which adopted provisions governing coverage of telemedicine during a declared disaster.
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 October 20, 2020 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.
The October 2020 Legislative Oversight Committee reports have been submitted to the respective legislative oversight committees in accordance with R.S. 49:968(D)(1)(b)(c)
LDH HSS Memo re: Nursing Home Issues (bed capacity, Medicaid vendor payments, admission requirements).