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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 164
BY REPRESENTATIVES HARRISON AND BARROW
A RESOLUTION
To authorize and direct the Department of Health and Hospitals to submit a report on the
status of implementation of the comprehensive plan addressing the delivery of
quality services to persons receiving home- and community-based services as
mandated by Act No. 299 of the 2011 Regular Session of the Legislature to the
House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and
Welfare.
WHEREAS, Act No. 299 of the 2011 Regular Session of the Legislature statutorily
directed the Department of Health and Hospitals to develop a comprehensive plan to address
the delivery of quality services to a person receiving home- and community-based services
and to submit a plan for implementation to the House Committee on Health and Welfare and
the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare by January 15, 2012; and
WHEREAS, Act No. 299 also mandated that the plan address the following: (1)
accreditation of home- and community-based service providers; (2) compliance to assure
that all home- and community-based service providers meet the standards for licensure and
plan for monitoring to ensure ongoing compliance; (3) appropriate revisions to streamline
the procedures for the billing of home- and community-based services and the monitoring
thereof to reduce fraud and errors; (4) mandatory cost reporting by providers of home- and
community-based services to verify expenditures and for use in determining appropriate
reimbursement rates; (5) appropriate revisions to streamline the delivery of support
coordination and ensure that these services are timely, cost-effective, and efficient; (6)
review reimbursement rate methodologies to promote administrative efficiencies and reflect
the cost of providing quality home- and community-based services; (7) the use of
technology to simplify the training, delivery, monitoring, and payment for home- and
community-based services; (8) revision to requirements for Medicaid enrollment to promote ENROLLEDHR NO. 164
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sustainable quality home- and community-based services; (9) provide for the use of
organized health care delivery systems as an option for the provision of Medicaid-funded
home- and community-based services; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Health and Hospitals convened a wide variety of
stakeholders and produced a report that addressed these nine focus areas, outlining
recommendations and a plan for implementation of the recommendations and submitted it
to the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and
Welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Health and Hospitals believes that implementation
of the plan has begun to produce the desired results of improved quality and cost-
effectiveness as well as compliance with licensure standards; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature of Louisiana has been actively involved in enacting
legislation to control costs and improve quality in home- and community-based services and
has an ongoing interest in seeing the plan fully implemented.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby authorize and direct the Department of Health and
Hospitals to submit a report on the status of implementation of the comprehensive plan
addressing the delivery of quality services to persons receiving home- and community-based
services as mandated by Act No. 299 of the 2011 Regular Session of the Legislature to the
House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department shall submit the report on or
before February 1, 2013.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES