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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 503
BY SENATOR HEITMEIER
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:1300.333, relative to Medicaid; to provide for the Department of Health2
and Hospitals' upper payment limit mechanism for ambulatory surgical centers; to3
provide for rules and regulations; to provide an effective date; and to provide for4
related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 40:1300.333 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 7
ยง1300.333. Upper payment limit mechanism for ambulatory surgical centers8
A. The Department of Health and Hospitals is authorized to seek9
approval from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of a program10
designed to reimburse ambulatory surgical centers that have an agreement with11
a governmental entity or entities to provide enhanced Medicaid services.12
B. The Department of Health and Hospitals may develop and maintain13
a Medicaid upper payment limit financing methodology for ambulatory surgical14
centers provided for in Subsection A of this Section. The disbursements of15
money generated by the use of an upper payment limit methodology shall be16
made only in accordance with an approved waiver or state plan amendment.17
The source of the nonfederal match for these payments may only be by18
voluntary certification of expenditures or intergovernmental transfer of funds.19
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not20
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature21
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If22 SB NO. 503 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: