Establishes requirements for the closure of the Earl K. Long Medical Center and the transfer of certain services to Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
Creates the Region Four State Hospital Transitioning Task Force to ensure continuing access by low-income residents to health care services and to optimize capacity of nonstate community hospitals
Creates a task force to study meaningful oversight of the professional healthcare licensing boards statutorily created within the Department of Health and Hospitals.
Directs DHH to submit a Section 1115 demonstration waiver application in order to utilize certain funding for the Medicaid program (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to submit a Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services designed to protect Medicaid and uninsured services being delivered and complement existing upper payment limit funding programs.