RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 188 (HB 784) 2022 Regular Session Duplessis
New law requires all hospitals and birthing centers that provide labor and delivery services
to provide pregnant women and their families with certain information about perinatal mood
and anxiety disorders.
New law requires a healthcare provider who is providing postnatal care to women up to 12
months following the birth to provide screening for postpartum or related mental health
disorders if, in the exercise of his professional judgment, he believes that such screening
would be in the best interest of the patient.
New law provides that a healthcare provider who is providing pediatric care to an infant
shall, subject to the caregiver's consent, screen the caregiver for postpartum depression or
related mental health disorders if he believes in the exercise of his professional judgment that
such screening would be in the best interest of the patient.
New law provides that perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening shall not create either
a physician-patient relationship between the healthcare provider and the caregiver or any
continuing obligation to provide medical services.
New law requires the La. Dept. of Health, in collaboration with Medicaid managed care
organizations, to identify providers who specialize in pregnancy-related and postpartum
depression or related mental health disorders and substance use disorders.
New law requires the La. Dept. of Health, in collaboration with Medicaid managed care
organizations, to develop network adequacy standards for treatment of pregnant and
postpartum women with depression or related mental health disorders and substance use
disorders.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 40:1125.1-1125.4)