SLS 14RS-1711 ORIGINAL Page 1 of 2 Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law; words in boldface type and underscored are additions. Regular Session, 2014 SENATE BILL NO. 621 BY SENATOR AMEDEE HEALTH CARE. Provides for compensation for home and community-based health care services. (8/1/14) AN ACT1 To enact R.S. 37:1031(F), relative to direct service workers; to provide relative to a per diem2 for certain services provided; and to provide for related matters.3 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4 Section 1. R.S. 37:1031(F) is hereby enacted to read as follows:5 ยง1031. Applicability6 * * *7 F.(1) The Department of Health and Hospitals shall reimburse the8 providers covered by this Section a per diem amount in addition to fees for9 services provided.10 (2) The per diem amount as provided for in this Subsection shall not be11 less than sixteen dollars and forty cents per day for recipients requiring12 medication administration and not less than eleven dollars and ninety-eight13 cents per day for other recipients.14 SB NO. 621 SLS 14RS-1711 ORIGINAL Page 2 of 2 Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law; words in boldface type and underscored are additions. The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams. DIGEST Amedee (SB 621) Proposed law provides the Department of Health and Hospitals shall reimburse the providers of direct service workers a per diem amount in addition to fees for services provided. Proposed law provides the per diem amount as provided for in the proposed law shall not be less than $16.40 per day for recipients requiring medication administration and not less than $11.98 per day for other recipients. Effective August 1, 2014. (Amends R.S. 37:1031(F))