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• September 11, 2015

  Facility Need Review (LAC 48:I.Chapter 125)

  Continues the provisions of the September 20, 2015 emergency rule which amended the provisions governing the Facility Need Review (FNR) program in order to provide a process for supplementing an FNR application that has been denied prior to appeal, provide time frames within which home and community-based service providers must become licensed after they have been approved through the FNR process and amend the provisions governing the FNR process for nursing facilities relative the statutory moratorium.

• September 11, 2015

  Federally Qualified Health Centers - Service Limits (LAC 50:XI.10303)

  Amends the provisions governing federally qualified health center service limits in order to remove the 12 visits per year limit for Medicaid recipients 21 years of age and older.

• September 11, 2015

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

  Continues the provisions of the November 20, 2014 emergency rule which amended the provisions governing the licensing standards for home and community-based services providers to clarify these provisions and to include licensing provisions for monitored in-home caregiving services.

• September 11, 2015

  Home and Community-Based Services Waivers - Community Choices Waiver (LAC 50:XXI.8329 and 8601)

  Continues the provisions of the November 20, 2014 Emergency Rule which amended the provisions governing the Community Choices Waiver in order to clarify the provisions governing monitored in-home caregiving services and to revise the provisions governing the organized health care delivery system.

• September 11, 2015

  Outpatient Hospital Services - Outpatient Clinics - Service Limits (LAC 50:V.5117)

  Amends the provisions governing outpatient hospital services in order to remove the 12 visits per year limit on physician services provided in a clinic in an outpatient hospital setting.

• September 11, 2015

  Pain Management Clinics - Licensing Standards (LAC 48:I.Chapter 78)

  Amends the provisions governing the licensing of pain management clinics to provide for the expiration of licensure exemptions and related matters in compliance with Act 714 of the 2014 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, and to revise these provisions to ensure that they are consistent with licensing standards for other health care providers and current enforcement processes.

• September 11, 2015

  Professional Services Program - Physician Services - Outpatient Physician Visits (LAC 50:IX.Chapter 6)

  Repeals the September 20, 1975 Rule governing physician visits, adopts provisions in the Professional Services Program governing physician services in order to remove the limits from outpatient physician visits, and ensures that these provisions are promulgated in a codified format for inclusion in the Louisiana Administrative Code.

• September 11, 2015

  Rural Health Clinics - Service Limits (LAC 50:XI.16303)

  Amends the provisions governing rural health clinic services in order to remove the 12 visits per year limit for Medicaid recipients 21 years of age and older.

• September 11, 2015

  September 10th 2015 Legislative Oversight Committee Activity

  The September 10, 2015 Legislative Oversight Committee reports have been submitted to the respective legislative oversight committees in accordance with R.S. 49:968(D)(1)(b)(c)

• September 10, 2015

  NOTICE OF INTENT: Tanning

  The proposed rule recodifies and amends Louisiana Administrative Code Title 49, Part I, Chapter 12 – Tanning Facility Regulations, which was originally promulgated in the March 20, 1992 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with Act 587 of 1990. Amendments to the newly recodified Sections 1201-1247 of Chapter 12 reflect administrative changes as well as requirements of Act 193 of 2014 that enforced a new ban on minors’ use of tanning equipment.

• September 10, 2015

  Notice of Intent: Opioid Antagonist Administration

  Implements provisions of Act 192 of the 2015 Regular Session to set forth best practice training requirements by licensed medical practitioners other than first responders, on distribution, storage, administration, and emergency follow-up procedures for opioid antagonists administered to individuals who are undergoing or who are believed to be undergoing an opioid-related overdose.

• September 10, 2015

  NOTICE OF INTENT: Reportable Disease Conditions

  The propose rule amends Louisiana Sanitary Code (LAC Title 51) Part II – The Control of Diseases, Sections 105-113, Part III – The Control of Rabies and Other Zoonotic Diseases, Section 103, Part XVII – Public Buildings, Schools, and Other Institutions, Section 501, and Part XXI – Day Care Centers and Residential Facilities, Section 105. Amendments update current disease reporting requirements of the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), Office of Public Health (OPH) based on recommendations of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).