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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 1087
BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHRODER
HOSPITALS: Establishes vendor credentialing uniformity and reciprocity
AN ACT1
To enact Part LVIX of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, to2
be comprised of R.S. 40:1300.321 and 1300.322, relative to medical vendor3
credentialing; to provide for legislative findings; to provide for rules and regulations;4
and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. Part LVIX of Chapter 5 of Title 40 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of7
1950, comprised of R.S. 40:1300.321 and 1300.322, is hereby enacted to read as follows:8
PART LVIX. MEDICAL VENDOR CREDENTIALING UNIFORMITY AND9
RECIPROCITY ACT10
§1300.321. Legislative findings11
The Legislature of Louisiana finds that:12
(1) Medical vendors play an important role in the delivery of health care in13
Louisiana.14
(2) While the state has an interest in ensuring that our health care facilities15
remain secure and infection-free, the state also has an interest in ensuring that16
medical vendors have access to health care facilities so that they may deliver17
necessary medical supplies.18
(3) While vendor credentialing is important, the state must balance safety19
concerns for hospitals with cost and burden to medial vendors, who currently are20 HLS 10RS-1623 ORIGINAL
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subjected to multiple expensive background checks, trainings, and health tests,1
creating an unnecessary burden on vendors.2
(4) It would be most fair, efficient, consistent, and cost-effective to create3
a uniform and reciprocal system of vendor credentialing that serves both the needs4
of the health facilities and the needs of the medical vendors.5
§1300.322. Credentialing; rules and regulations6
The legislature hereby directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to7
promulgate rules and regulations according to the Administrative Procedure Act to8
create a uniform system of identification for medical vendors which provides for one9
set of requirements and one set of fees to get credentialed, and provides for10
reciprocity between the hospitals in accepting the uniform credentials. The11
legislature further directs the Department of Health and Hospitals to work with the12
Louisiana Hospital Association and representatives of the medical vendor profession13
in the creation of the rules and regulations described herein.14
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Schroder HB No. 1087
Abstract: Directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to create a uniform system of
identification for medical vendors.
Proposed law states legislative findings that vendor credentialing must balance hospital
safety with cost and burden to medical vendors, and further states that it would be most fair,
efficient, consistent, and cost-effective to create a uniform and reciprocal system of vendor
credentialing that serves both the needs of the health facilities and the needs of the medical
vendors.
Proposed law directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to promulgate rules and regulations
to create a uniform system of identification for medical vendors which provides for one set
of requirements, one set of fees to get credentialed, and reciprocity between the hospitals in
accepting the uniform credentials.
Proposed law also directs the Dept. of Health and Hospitals to work with the Louisiana
Hospital Association and representatives of the medical vendor profession in the creation
of the rules regulating the uniform system of identification.
(Adds R.S. 40:1300.321 and 1300.322)