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LDH News
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LDH Awards $5.5 Million to the City of Carencro for Drinking Water Improvements
The Louisiana Department of Health’s Office of Public Health has awarded a $5.5 million loan to the City of Carencro through the State’s Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund. The low-interest loan will help improve Carencro’s water system.
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Attention: All Prospective Mental Health Providers- effective 02/20/2018
Effective February 20, 2018, all new applicants and those with incomplete applications will be subject to the FNR process.
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John Bel Edwards staff meets with Trump officials on Louisiana Medicaid work requirements
WASHINGTON - Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Rebekah Gee and Gov. John Bel Edwards' general counsel Matthew Block met with federal officials in Washington D.C. Friday (Jan. 26) to discuss work requirements for Medicaid recipients in Louisiana.
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Standing Order for Naloxone Renewed by Louisiana Department of Health
Dr. Rebekah Gee, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, has renewed the standing order for the life-saving medication Naloxone. Through this action, laypeople who are helping a person who has overdosed or who is at risk of an overdose on heroin, morphine or another opioid drug can continue to receive the lifesaving medication naloxone without having to get a direct prescription from a doctor.
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January 2018 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 January 20, 2018 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.
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Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities - Public Facilities - Reimbursement Rate Increase LAC 50:VII.32969
Continues the provisions of the October 1, 2014 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing the transitional rates for public facilities in order to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate.
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Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments – Major Medical Centers LAC 50:V.2715
Continues the provisions of the February 20, 2017 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions of the June 30, 2016 Emergency Rule governing disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments to major medical centers located in the central and northern areas of Louisiana in compliance with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requirements.
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State Children’s Health Insurance Program - Termination of Coverage
Amends the provisions governing the Louisiana Children’s Health Insurance Program (LaCHIP) in order to terminate coverage of uninsured children under the Title XXI CHIP authority as a result of the lack of federal matching funds for LaCHIP.
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Medicaid Eligibility - Optional Targeted Low-Income Children LAC 50:III.2319 and 10305
Adopts provisions governing Medicaid eligibility to increase the maximum income standard for the Optional Targeted Low-Income Children Coverage Group up to 250 percent of the FPL, to incorporate cost sharing provisions, and to ensure compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act (R.S. 49:950 et seq) by codifying these provisions into the Louisiana Administrative Code (LAC) in a clear and concise manner.
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Therapeutic Group Homes - Licensing Standards
Amends the provisions governing the licensing standards for therapeutic group homes (TGHs) in order to: 1) clarify and update these provisions to be consistent with the standard language used in other licensing Rules and with standard processes; 2) update the comprehensive treatment plan provisions; and 3) establish provisions for inactivation of licensure due to non-declared disasters or emergencies and for TGH residents to attend school in an alternative setting.
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Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities—Public Facilities - Reimbursement Rate Increase LAC 50:VII.32969
Continues the provisions of the October 1, 2014 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing the reimbursement methodology for intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities (ICFs/ID) in order to increase the transitional rates paid to public facilities.