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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 371
BY SENATOR HEITMEIER AND REPRESENTATIVE BROSSETT
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:1300.332, relative to Medicaid; to provide for the Department of Health2
and Hospitals upper payment limit mechanism for outpatient behavioral health3
services for certain Medicaid recipients; to provide for rules and regulations; and to4
provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 40:1300.332 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง1300.332. Upper payment limit mechanism for outpatient behavioral health8
services for Medicaid recipients under the age of twenty-one9
A. The Department of Health and Hospitals is authorized to seek10
approval from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of a program11
designed to reimburse non-state, governmental entities through the Medicaid12
program for outpatient behavioral health services to Medicaid recipients under13
the age of twenty-one.14
B. The Department of Health and Hospitals may develop and maintain15
a Medicaid upper payment limit financing methodology for the behavioral16
health services provided for in Subsection A of this Section. The disbursements17
of monies generated by the use of an upper payment limit methodology shall be18
made only in accordance with an approved waiver or state plan amendment.19
The source of the non-federal match for these payments may only be by20
voluntary certification of expenditures or intergovernmental transfer of funds.21
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not22
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature23
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If24 SB NO. 371 ENROLLED
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vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become1
effective on the day following such approval.2
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED: