Provides authority for the Department of Health and Hospitals to create an upper payment limit mechanism for outpatient behavioral health services for Medicaid recipients under the age of twenty-one. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE FF EX See Note)
Urges and requests parish offices of homeland security and emergency preparedness to maintain a voluntary registry of at risk persons and persons with special needs who will require assistance during times of evacuation and certain other agencies to annually submit names of such persons who have consented to being included in the registry.
Creates a fund for the purpose of funding the out-of-state tuition of certain students enrolled in certain medical education programs when such medical education programs are not offered in Louisiana. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Requires hospitals, prior to discharge, to provide parents of newborns educational information on Pertussis disease and the availability of a vaccine. (8/15/11)