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The Office of Public Health STD/HIV Program is seeking competitive proposals from qualified proposers to act as a program administrator and fiduciary agent for the statewide Health Insurance Program (HIP) for persons living with HIV.
The Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Environmental Quality, and Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, have issued a new advisory concerning fish and shellfish for Bayou D’Inde, the Calcasieu Estuary and the Calcasieu Ship Channel.
David Armstead, HIV program monitor with the Louisiana Department of Health Office of Public Health, has been named as one of the Top 100 people in the nation working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Armstead was recognized for his volunteer outreach efforts in the New Orleans area where he also serves as chair of the New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amends the provisions governing home and community-based behavioral health services in order to clarify the provisions to ensure adequate service coordination and delivery.
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, 2016 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq. Prior submissions are available in the archives.
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.
Amends the provisions governing behavioral health services in order to clarify and align the provisions with the 1915(b) Healthy Louisiana and Coordinated System of Care (CSoC) Waiver.