Results for provider policy

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  Nursing Facilities

  LDH HSS website for Nursing Facilities

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  Medicaid Provider Manuals - Public Comment Archive (2019-2021)

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  Interoperability and Patient Access for Medicaid Members

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  Louisiana Surgeon General: Restoring Trust in Public Health Starts with Restoring Trust in Medicine - February 13, 2025

  A Message from Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, MD

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  EMS Commission

  The Louisiana Emergency Medical Services Certification Commission (EMSCC) is a legally created administrative commission acting within the governmental structure of the state and possessing legal power.

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  Medicaid Managed Care Policies & Procedures Archive (2022) continued

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  Medicaid Provider Manuals - Public Comment Archive (2023)

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  Medicaid Provider Manuals - Public Comment Archive (2024)

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  Medicaid Services

  Louisiana's Medicaid program covers many of the same things that private health insurance programs traditionally cover.

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  Veterinary Resources

  Veterinary infection control, rabies controls, and zoonotic diseases

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  Louisiana Immunization Laws/Rules

  Information on Louisiana's immunization related laws and rules

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  Louisiana Department of Health leadership announces key initiatives - April 21, 2025

  These priorities were established to create focus and address overarching problems that have prevented Louisianans from achieving better health and independence.

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  Long-Term Care

  Long-term services are delivered in institutional and home and community-based settings.

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  Rare Disease Advisory Council Report, SFY 2023

  The Louisiana Rare Disease Advisory Council (LA RDAC) is a statutorily mandated advisory group that is charged with serving in a resource capacity to any public and private agency located in this state that provides services for a person who has been diagnosed with a rare disease. The LA RDAC is administered through the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH or the Department) Office of Public Health (OPH) Bureau of Family Health (BFH), which provides staff support and policy expertise to assist the group with carrying out its charge.

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  Abortion

  "Abortion" or "induced abortion" means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child. Such use, prescription, or means is not an abortion if done with the intent to: Remove a dead unborn child caused by or induce delivery of the uterine contents in case of a positive diagnosis, certified in writing in the woman's medical record along with the results of an obstetric ultrasound test, that the pregnancy has ended or is in the unavoidable and untreatable process of ending due to spontaneous miscarriage, also known in medical terminology as spontaneous abortion, missed abortion, or inevitable abortion, incomplete abortion, or septic abortion.

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  Medicaid Managed Care Policies & Procedures Archive - Pharmacy (2024) continued

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  Medicaid State Plan Amendments 2021

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  Jump Start Your Heart Act

  The Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health, and Bureau of EMS has the authority to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations to implement and assure compliance to R.S. 40:1137.3 S.B.12 ACT 234 relative to (AED) automated external defibrillator (AEDs) are required on the premises of each post-secondary institution and each elementary, middle, and high school and at certain sponsored/host athletic events.

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  Medicaid Managed Care Policies & Procedures Archive - Pharmacy (2025)

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  EMS Credentialing

  The Bureau of EMS licenses individuals who meet the license requirements as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT), or Paramedic.