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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 489
BY SENATOR HEITMEIER
HEALTH CARE. Provides relative to the diabetes annual action plan. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact the introductory paragraph of R.S. 46:2616 and to enact R.S.2
46:2616(B), relative to the diabetes annual action plan; to provide relative to content;3
and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. The introductory paragraph of R.S. 46:2616 is hereby amended and6
reenacted, and R.S. 46:2616(B) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง2616. Diabetes annual action plan; submission; content8
A. The Department of Health and Hospitals shall submit an action plan, after9
consulting with and receiving comments from the medical director of each of its10
contracted Medicaid partners, to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and11
the House Committee on Health and Welfare no later than February first of each year12
on the following:13
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B. The Department of Health and Hospitals shall include within the15
annual diabetes action plan the most current editions of the standards of16
medical care in diabetes by the American Diabetes Association and the17 SB NO. 489
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American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.1
The original instrument was prepared by Christopher D. Adams. The
following digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative
instrument, was prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Heitmeier (SB 489)
Present law provides the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) shall submit an action
plan, after consulting with and receiving comments from the medical director of each of its
contracted Medicaid partners, to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and the House
Committee on Health and Welfare no later than February first of each year.
Proposed law amends present law to provide DHH shall include within the annual diabetes
action plan the most current editions of the standards of medical care in diabetes by the
American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 46:2616(intro para); adds R.S. 46:2616(B))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to
the original bill
1. Changes "health care provider" to "health care professional".
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Deleted the particularized provisions of information to be included in the
annual diabetes action plan.
2. Inserted language to adhere to the most recent standards of medical care for
diabetes as provided by the American Diabetes Association and the
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.