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Amends the provisions governing the licensing of nursing facilities to adopt provisions governing virtual visitation to provide for consent, by a nursing facility resident or a legal representative, relative to the authorization for installation and use of a monitoring device in the room of the resident in compliance with Act 596 of the 2018 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature..
Continues the provisions of the July 5, 2018 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing the reimbursement methodology for nursing facilities in order to adopt provisions governing the transition of a private nursing facility to a state-owned or operated nursing facility through a change of ownership.
Amends the provisions governing the reimbursement methodology for nursing facilities in order to align the case-mix index threshold percentage for nursing facility rate setting with the national threshold percentage.
Continues the provisions of the November 20, 2018 Emergency Rule which adopted provisions governing virtual visitation to provide for consent, by a nursing facility resident or a legal representative, relative to the authorization for installation and use of a monitoring device in the room of the resident in compliance with Act 596 of the 2018 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature.
Adopts provisions which: 1) require managed care organizations (MCOs) participating in the Medical Assistance Program to ensure that providers contracted or enrolled with the MCO comply with all Medicaid provider enrollment, credentialing and accreditation requirements; and 2) establish a process and timeline for affected providers to request departmental review of MCO-identified credentialing deficiencies.
Continues the provisions of the October 11, 2018 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities in order to extend the period of transitional rates for a large facility that provides continuous nursing coverage to medically fragile populations for two additional years, and aligned the Rule language with the Medicaid State Plan amendment approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Adopts provisions governing the Healthy Louisiana Opioid Use Disorder/Substance Use Disorder Waiver, a five-year 1115(a) demonstration waiver approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to permit managed care organizations (MCOs) to provide opioid use disorder/substance use disorder services to Medicaid recipients in an institution for mental disease (IMD) without regard to the monthly MCO length of stay limit for these residential treatment services in an IMD setting.
Amends the provisions governing substance use disorders services in order to align these provisions with the 1115(a) Healthy Louisiana Opioid Use Disorder/Substance Use Disorder Waiver approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services..
Today, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor released a report evaluating the Department of Health’s process of using wage data to determine the eligibility of the Medicaid expansion population.
Two departments of state government that serve children, families and citizens who need health care are doing a tremendous job for which they don’t always get the credit they deserve.
The November 2018 Legislative Oversight Committee reports have been submitted to the respective legislative oversight committees in accordance with R.S. 49:968(D)(1)(b)(c)
Residents in Sabine Parish and parts of Natchitoches Parish will receive cleaner, safer drinking water thanks to $2.6 million in improvements that are being made to the Sabine Parish Waterworks District #1