Requests the Department of Insurance to study the impact of alternative funding programs on patient access to affordable prescription drugs
Requests an evaluation by La. officials of efforts to deter prescription drug abuse and recommendations for best practices to combat such abuse
Requests Louisiana medical schools, prescriber licensing boards, and prescriber trade associations to take all necessary steps to eliminate pain as the fifth vital sign and to increase prescriber education and awareness on assessing, identifying, and treating the symptom of pain.
Directs the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board to create the Physical Therapy Patient Access Review Committee.
Authorizes and directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to study certain aspects regarding actions for violations of the duty of good faith and fair dealings under insurance policies
Provides relative to a study of the issue of courts raising prescription sua sponte
Authorizes and directs the Louisiana Supreme Court to study extending liberative prescriptive periods to two years and to compile data relative to Louisiana's threshold for a civil jury trial
Requests the La. State Law Institute to study the contractual tolling of liberative prescriptive periods