2022 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE BILL NO. 30
BY SENATOR FRED MILLS
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:2116 and to enact R.S. 40:2009.4(C), 2116.1, 2116.2, and
3 2180.2(12), relative to facility need review; to provide legislative authority for
4 facility need review; to provide for healthcare provider types subject to facility need
5 review; to provide for the facility need review committee; to provide for a nursing
6 facility moratorium; to provide for exceptions; to provide for cost effective
7 measures; to provide for notice of sex offenders living in certain facilities; and to
8 provide for related matters.
9 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
10 Section 1. R.S. 40:2116 is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 40:2009.4(C),
11 2116.1, 2116.2, and 2180.2(12) are hereby enacted to read as follows:
12 §2009.4. Standards prescribed
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14 C. The Louisiana Department of Health shall develop and implement
15 policies and procedures to require nursing facilities to notify new residents and
16 their families and guardians of sex offenders living in their facilities upon
17 admission. The notification shall continue for as long as the information is
18 considered a public record. During the annual licensing process, health
19 standards surveyors shall verify the providers' compliance with the policy.
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21 PART II-A. FACILITY NEED REVIEW
22 AND NURSING FACILITY MORATORIUM
23 §2116. Facility need review
24 A. The Louisiana Department of Health, in accordance with the
25 Administrative Procedure Act, shall establish shall implement a facility need review
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1 process consistent with the regulations for licensure and for Title XIX of the Social
2 Security Act in accordance with the provisions of this Section. The department
3 may institute facility need review on licensing or certification to participate in
4 the Title XIX program. Except as provided in R.S. 40:2116.1, no healthcare
5 provider shall be subject to facility need review unless authorized by the
6 legislature in Subsection B of this Section.
7 B. The following healthcare providers shall be subject to facility need
8 review to determine the need for a new or additional facility, provider,
9 program, service, or bed:
10 (1) Home- and community-based service providers. However, certain
11 services or modules of a home- and community-based service provider may be
12 excluded from the facility need review process at the discretion of the secretary
13 of the Louisiana Department of Health.
14 (2) Hospice providers or inpatient hospice facilities.
15 (3) Pediatric day health care facilities.
16 (4) Behavioral health services providers that provide psychosocial
17 rehabilitation or community psychiatric support and treatment services.
18 (5) Opioid treatment programs licensed under a behavioral health
19 services provider license.
20 (6) Intermediate care facilities for people with developmental disabilities.
21 C.(1) The secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health shall appoint
22 a facility need review committee, "FNR committee", that shall consist of the
23 following members:
24 (a) The secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health or his designee.
25 (b) The assistant secretary of the office of behavioral health of the
26 Louisiana Department of Health or his designee.
27 (c) The assistant secretary of the office for citizens with developmental
28 disabilities of the Louisiana Department of Health or his designee.
29 (d) The assistant secretary of the office of aging and adult services of the
30 Louisiana Department of Health or his designee.
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1 (e) The assistant secretary of the office of public health of the Louisiana
2 Department of Health or his designee.
3 (f) The Medicaid director of the Louisiana Department of Health or his
4 designee.
5 (g) The Medicaid medical director of the Louisiana Department of
6 Health or his designee.
7 (2) In addition to the members set forth in Paragraph (1) of this
8 Subsection, the secretary may appoint additional members to the FNR
9 committee when necessary in reviewing applications of opioid treatment
10 programs.
11 (3) No FNR committee member shall have a proprietary or financial
12 interest in any facility subject to facility need review.
13 (4) The FNR committee shall issue a decision on a facility need review
14 application within ninety days from receipt of the application or within the
15 deadlines established in a request for proposals or request for applications.
16 (5)(a) An applicant for facility need review shall provide all written
17 application materials and documentation as may be required by rule. The
18 applicant may include any additional written documentation or written
19 evidence that supports the application for facility need review.
20 (b) Unless otherwise stated in a specific request for proposals or request
21 for applications, the initial review and decision by the FNR committee shall
22 consider all written materials and documentation submitted by the applicant
23 and shall be conducted as a paper review.
24 (c)(i) Unless otherwise stated in a specific request for proposals or
25 request for applications, if the initial decision is to reject or deny the facility
26 need review application, then the applicant may request to supplement the
27 application.
28 (ii) Upon receipt of additional documentation and evidence from the
29 applicant, the FNR committee shall conduct a supplemental application review
30 and shall provide the applicant an opportunity to meet with the FNR committee
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1 or its designees as part of the review. The meeting may be conducted in-person
2 or, at the discretion of the Louisiana Department of Health, through virtual
3 means, including by telephone or virtual technology that facilitates synchronous
4 interaction.
5 (iii) After a meeting conducted pursuant to Item (ii) of this
6 Subparagraph, the applicant may submit additional documentation and
7 evidence for consideration during the supplemental application review.
8 (iv) The decision on the supplemental application review shall be made
9 by the FNR committee.
10 (d) If the facility need review application is rejected or denied after the
11 supplemental application review, the applicant may request an administrative
12 appeal of the FNR committee's decision with the division of administrative law
13 in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. The applicant is not
14 required to request a supplemental review and may elect to proceed directly to
15 an administrative appeal.
16 (6) If the FNR committee approves the facility need review application,
17 then the applicant may proceed with seeking licensure or certification to
18 participate in the Title XIX program as applicable.
19 B.D. The department shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance
20 with the Administrative Procedure Act to provide for facility need review
21 implement the provisions of this Section. The rules and regulations shall include
22 but not be limited to the following:
23 (1) Criteria for review of beds for Level 4 adult residential care providers as
24 defined in R.S. 40:2166.3 and identified in R.S. 40:2166.5, and community and
25 group home beds for persons with developmental disabilities, to determine if there
26 is a need for additional beds to enroll and participate in the Title XIX program
27 healthcare provider applications for facility need review, including provisions
28 for review pursuant to requests for proposals or requests for applications.
29 (2) Criteria for review of nursing facility beds to determine if there is a need
30 for a new or additional beds facility, provider, program, service, or bed.
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1 (3) Specific duties of the department and the FNR committee relative to
2 review proposals for new facilities and determine the need therefor of applications.
3 (4) Appropriate methodology for the collection of data necessary for the
4 administration of the program.
5 (5) Procedures for the FNR committee to grant and revoke approvals
6 approve, reject, or deny applications.
7 (6) Establishment of application fees.
8 (7) Procedures for a supplemental review of applications by the department
9 FNR committee.
10 (8) Procedures to request a fair hearing from a determination made by the
11 department FNR committee.
12 (9) Provisions for judicial review from the decision rendered after a fair
13 hearing an administrative appeal.
14 (10) Criteria for review of beds issued pursuant to a department waiver to
15 determine if there is a need for such beds to be licensed and enrolled in the Title XIX
16 program. Provided, however, that providers of services may be enrolled and
17 participate in such a Title XIX program only if and when the department develops
18 a cost-effective plan for medical residential care services that is cost neutral with
19 respect to existing Medicaid long-term care services and expenditures, or the
20 legislature specifically provides funding for such services. Establishment of
21 services and modules of a home- and community-based service provider that
22 will be subject to the facility need review process.
23 (11) Provisions and procedures for the revocation, suspension, and
24 expiration of facility need review approvals.
25 C.E. No new facility, service, or beds healthcare provider as described
26 provided for in Paragraphs (B)(1) and (2) Subsection B of this Section shall be
27 certified to participate in the Title XIX program without the approval of the
28 department based upon a determination of a need therefor in accordance with the
29 provisions of this Part first obtaining facility need review approval and
30 complying with any and all licensing regulations promulgated by the
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1 department. Any person establishing, managing, or operating a new facility,
2 service, or bed without the approval required by this Part Section shall be prohibited
3 from participating in the Title XIX program.
4 D.(1) In order to accomplish cost effectiveness of beds issued pursuant to a
5 department waiver, the department may promulgate rules that include but are not
6 limited to the following:
7 (a) A bed abeyance program to reduce nursing facility beds by ten percent or
8 more. Such an abeyance program shall include a time frame in which a determination
9 is made as to whether beds should be brought out of abeyance based upon a
10 ninety-three percent occupancy rate within a service area.
11 (b) An increase in the minimum occupancy level required for a nursing
12 facility to fully recover its capital cost.
13 (c) In order to achieve a reduction in long-term care institutional costs, a
14 program for reduction of certificates of need for nursing facility beds, which may
15 include a buy-back program, provided such a buy-back program is approved by the
16 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is eligible for federal funds
17 participation.
18 (d) A bed exchange program that allows a nursing facility to create adult
19 residential care beds based on the permanent elimination of existing nursing facility
20 beds.
21 (2) The Louisiana Department of Health shall implement a moratorium on
22 additional beds for nursing facilities. The Louisiana Department of Health shall not
23 approve any additional nursing facilities or additional beds in nursing facilities
24 through facility need review. This prohibition shall apply only to applications for
25 new beds not approved prior to July 1, 1996. The prohibition shall become
26 enforceable on July 1, 1996, and shall remain in effect until July 1, 2027. This
27 prohibition shall not apply to the replacement of existing facilities, provided that
28 there is no increase in existing nursing home beds at the replacement facility.
29 (3) Repealed by Acts 2008, No. 187, §2, eff. June 13, 2008.
30 (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any nursing
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1 facility in Lafourche Parish located in an area designated a flood zone that has
2 commenced construction on a replacement facility during the period of the
3 moratorium on replacement facilities shall be eligible to apply for licensure after
4 June 30, 2008, provided the replacement facility is in an area outside a flood zone
5 in such parish and south of the Company Canal. The buildings and grounds
6 constituting the original nursing facility to be vacated may be offered by donation
7 to the state, political subdivision, or other public entity for uses consistent with
8 public purposes.
9 (5) The moratorium on additional beds for nursing facilities imposed pursuant
10 to Paragraph (2) of this Subsection shall not apply to a nursing facility that seeks to
11 license additional beds if the following criteria are met:
12 (a) The nursing facility is a non-profit corporation formed pursuant to
13 Louisiana law.
14 (b) The total number of additional beds shall not exceed ten.
15 (c) The additional beds shall be occupied only by persons who meet one of
16 the following criteria:
17 (i) Prior to admission to the nursing facility, the person resided in an adult
18 residential care facility, as defined in R.S. 40:2153, owned by the same legal entity
19 which owns the nursing facility.
20 (ii) Prior to admission to the nursing facility, the person resided in a living
21 unit of a provider of continuing care, as defined in R.S. 51:2173, owned by the same
22 legal entity which owns the nursing facility.
23 (iii) The person was previously a resident of the same nursing facility.
24 (d) The additional beds shall not be enrolled and participate in the Title XIX
25 program.
26 (e) Tentative approval of the plans and specifications for additional beds was
27 received by the division of engineering and architectural services of the Louisiana
28 Department of Health prior to August 15, 2006.
29 (f) Construction of the additional beds commenced prior to August 15, 2006.
30 (g) Construction was completed on or before April 1, 2007.
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1 (6)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the
2 department may license, but not certify for Medicaid participation, up to thirty
3 additional beds for a continuing care retirement community, registered in accordance
4 with R.S. 51:2171 et seq., and found to be in compliance with said statutes on May
5 3, 2002 by the Louisiana Department of Health during the existence of the
6 moratorium imposed pursuant to Paragraph (2) of this Subsection.
7 (b) At the discretion of the continuing care retirement community provider,
8 the licensed beds may be used for persons who are not residents of the continuing
9 care retirement community and who are not parties to a continuing care contract for
10 a period of up to five years after the receipt of the certification of occupancy for a
11 registered continuing care retirement community. After that period, the licensed beds
12 may be used only by owners of a continuing care contract with the continuing care
13 retirement community provider.
14 (7) Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 179, §1, eff. August 15, 2011.
15 (8) Repealed by Acts 2011, No. 179, §1, eff. August 15, 2011.
16 E.(1) Except as provided in Paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this Subsection,
17 the Louisiana Department of Health shall suspend approval, certification, and
18 enrollment of nursing facility beds which were previously approved to participate in
19 the Title XIX program under a facility need review process, Section 1122 process,
20 or any predecessor needs review process, unless such beds are certified and enrolled
21 in the Title XIX program by December 31, 1997. Such suspension shall be for the
22 length of the moratorium imposed pursuant to Subsection D of this Section.
23 (2) The suspension shall not apply to existing approvals for replacement of
24 existing nursing facilities, or approvals which are under judicial review, on August
25 15, 1997. The suspension shall not apply to approvals for alternate use of previously
26 approved beds.
27 (3) In the case of previously approved but unbuilt nursing facilities or beds,
28 the department shall not suspend approval, certification, and enrollment if
29 construction has actually begun by June 30, 1998, and construction is completed and
30 such facilities or beds are actually certified and enrolled in the Title XIX program
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1 by December 31, 1999. In said cases, the department shall suspend approval,
2 certification, and enrollment of previously approved beds not certified and enrolled
3 by December 31, 1999.
4 (4) In the case of previously approved but unbuilt nursing facilities or beds,
5 if construction has actually begun by June 30, 1998, and construction is not
6 completed and the facilities or beds are not actually certified and enrolled in the Title
7 XIX program by December 31, 1999, the secretary of the Louisiana Department of
8 Health may authorize the certification and enrollment of the beds by December 31,
9 2001. However, the extension shall not be granted unless the secretary determines
10 that construction has not been completed due to circumstances beyond the control
11 of the applicant, a written request for an extension was made prior to December 31,
12 1999, and financing has been approved for the beds. These provisions shall only be
13 applicable in the case of a facility, the primary purpose of which is to replace an
14 existing facility, but also in so doing, enrolling additional beds.
15 F.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, the Louisiana
16 Department of Health shall revoke all approvals for community and group home
17 beds which were previously approved to participate in the Title XIX program under
18 a facility need review process, Section 1122 process, or any predecessor needs
19 review process, unless such beds are certified and enrolled in the Title XIX program
20 by December 31, 1997.
21 (2) In the case of unbuilt community and group home facilities, the
22 department shall not revoke approvals if construction has actually begun by
23 December 31, 1997, and construction is completed and such facilities or beds are
24 actually certified and enrolled in the Title XIX program by June 30, 1999. In said
25 cases, the department shall revoke all approved beds not certified and enrolled by
26 June 30, 1999.
27 G. Any intermediate care facility for people with developmental disabilities,
28 which serves children or adults with intellectual disabilities, autism, or behavioral
29 problems, with no less than one hundred fifty and no more than one hundred eighty
30 beds, shall be eligible for the facility need review process as set forth in this Section
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1 and in rules and regulations promulgated by the Louisiana Department of Health as
2 authorized in Subsections A and B of this Section. The exemption shall exist for a
3 maximum of fifty additional beds.
4 H. In the case of nursing facility beds currently approved, any nursing facility
5 provider may replace any existing beds with adult residential care home beds, either
6 through new construction or through renovation and conversion. Such replacement
7 shall be subject to licensing regulations, but not to additional facility need review
8 process approval, subject to budget neutrality provisions and rules and regulations
9 promulgated by the Louisiana Department of Health.
10 I. The Louisiana Department of Health shall develop and implement policies
11 and procedures to require nursing facilities and ICF/DD providers to notify new
12 residents and their families and guardians of sex offenders living in their facilities
13 upon admission. The notification shall continue for as long as the information is
14 considered a public record. During the annual licensing process, health standards
15 surveyors shall verify providers' compliance with the policy.
16 J.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the facility
17 need review approval for licensed intermediate care facilities for people with
18 developmental disabilities (ICF/DD) located in an area or areas which have been
19 affected by an executive order or proclamation of emergency or disaster and which
20 were operating at the time the executive order or proclamation was issued under R.S.
21 29:724 shall remain in effect and shall not be terminated, considered to have expired,
22 or revoked until January 1, 2012. For this exception to apply, the emergency or
23 disaster shall be the sole causal factor in the interruption of the provision of services.
24 This exception shall not apply if any one of the following occurs:
25 (a) The approval is voluntarily surrendered by the provider.
26 (b) The provider fails to notify in writing the health standards section of the
27 Louisiana Department of Health of its intention to avail itself of the continuation of
28 facility need review approval no later than December 31, 2005.
29 (c) The provider fails to recommence providing services prior to January 1,
30 2012.
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1 (2) Nothing in this Subsection shall be construed to accomplish either of the
2 following:
3 (a) To permit a nursing home which has relocated, as the result of an
4 executive order or declaration of emergency or disaster issued in accordance with
5 R.S. 29:724, to relocate such facility outside of the geographic area for which the
6 original facility need review approval was granted.
7 (b) To permit a nursing home which has relocated, as the result of an
8 executive order or declaration of emergency or disaster issued in accordance with
9 R.S. 29:724, to obviate the provisions of R.S. 40:2116(D)(2).
10 (3)(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any nursing home
11 provider located in a parish with a population between sixty-five thousand and
12 seventy thousand according to the latest federal decennial census, which parish was
13 affected by hurricane Katrina or Rita, and who ceased operations solely because of
14 the damage occasioned by the events which were the subject of an order or
15 proclamation of emergency or disaster issued pursuant to R.S. 29:724, and whose
16 operations have not been resumed as of July 1, 2008, shall have their pre-storm
17 facility need review approval reinstated for the sole purpose of rebuilding or
18 replacing the facility, upon meeting the following conditions:
19 (i) The nursing home provider shall submit a reinstatement request to the
20 health standards section of the Louisiana Department of Health in writing by
21 December 31, 2008.
22 (ii) The reinstatement request shall state the provider's intent to rebuild the
23 nursing home and resume providing nursing home services in that parish.
24 (iii) The nursing home provider shall resume operation as a nursing home
25 provider in that parish no later than January 1, 2010.
26 (iv) The nursing home provider shall submit all fees, costs, and cost reports
27 due and owing to the Louisiana Department of Health.
28 (b) The facility need review approval reinstated to the facility shall
29 encompass all rights and responsibilities afforded the facility at the time it ceased
30 providing services as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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1 (c) The provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to a nursing home
2 provider who has voluntarily surrendered its facility need review approval.
3 K. The department shall adopt a rule to allow a nursing home located in a
4 service area which has less than ninety-three percent occupancy to temporarily
5 convert a number of licensed beds to an alternate use. The beds may be converted for
6 alternate health care use until such time as the average annual occupancy in the
7 service area exceeds ninety-three percent and an adjoining service area exceeds
8 ninety-three percent based on the department's LTC-2 Report and the facility is
9 notified of the same. The facility shall then either re-license the beds as nursing
10 home beds within one year of receipt of the notice from the department, or the beds
11 will be deemed expired. Nothing herein shall be construed to preclude nursing homes
12 from taking beds out of alternate use at any time and using them as licensed beds
13 unless deemed expired. The prohibition contained in Paragraph (D)(2) of this Section
14 shall not apply to nursing home beds in alternate use.
15 §2116.1. Nursing facilities; facility need review; moratorium; exceptions
16 A.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health, in accordance with the
17 Administrative Procedure Act, shall establish a facility need review process for
18 nursing facilities consistent with the regulations for licensure and for Title XIX
19 of the Social Security Act.
20 (2) The department shall promulgate rules and regulations in accordance
21 with the Administrative Procedure Act to provide for facility need review. The
22 rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to the following:
23 (a) Criteria for review of nursing facility beds to determine if there is a
24 need for additional beds.
25 (b) Specific duties of the department to review proposals for new
26 facilities and determine the need therefor.
27 (c) Appropriate methodology for the collection of data necessary for the
28 administration of the program.
29 (d) Procedures to grant and revoke approvals.
30 (e) Establishment of application fees.
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1 (f) Procedures for review of applications by the department.
2 (g) Procedures to request a fair hearing from a determination made by
3 the department.
4 (h) Provisions for judicial review from the decision rendered after a fair
5 hearing.
6 (3) No new facility, service, or beds shall be licensed and certified to
7 participate in the Title XIX program without the approval of the department
8 based upon a determination of a need therefor in accordance with the
9 provisions of this Section. Any person establishing, managing, or operating a
10 new facility, service, or bed without the approval required by this Section shall
11 be prohibited from participating in the Title XIX program.
12 B.(1) There shall be a moratorium on nursing facilities and additional
13 beds for nursing facilities which shall be in effect until July 1, 2027.
14 (2) The moratorium provided for in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection
15 shall not apply to the following:
16 (a) Replacement of existing facilities, provided that there is no increase
17 in existing nursing home beds at the replacement facility. However, a nursing
18 home which has relocated, as the result of an executive order or declaration of
19 emergency or disaster issued in accordance with R.S. 29:724 shall not be
20 allowed to permanently relocate such facility outside of the geographic area for
21 which the original facility was licensed.
22 (b) Replacement of nursing facility beds with adult residential care home
23 beds, either through new construction or through renovation and conversion.
24 Such replacement shall be subject to licensing rules and regulations and budget
25 neutrality provisions promulgated by the Louisiana Department of Health.
26 (c) A nursing facility located in a service area which has less than
27 ninety-three percent occupancy that temporarily converts a number of licensed
28 beds to an alternate use. The beds may be converted for alternate health care
29 use until such time as the average annual occupancy in the service area exceeds
30 ninety-three percent and an adjoining service area exceeds ninety-three percent
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1 based on the department's LTC-2 Report or its successor and the facility is
2 notified of the same. The facility shall then either relicense the beds as nursing
3 home beds within one year of receipt of the notice from the department, or the
4 beds will be deemed expired. Nothing in this Paragraph shall be construed to
5 preclude nursing facilities from taking beds out of alternate use at any time and
6 using them as licensed beds unless they are deemed expired.
7 (d) Nursing home beds in alternate use.
8 C.(1) Except as provided in Paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this
9 Subsection, the Louisiana Department of Health shall suspend approval,
10 certification, and enrollment of nursing facility beds which were previously
11 approved to participate in the Title XIX program under a facility need review
12 process, Section 1122 process, or any predecessor needs review process, unless
13 the beds are certified and enrolled in the Title XIX program by December 31,
14 1997. The suspension shall be for the length of the moratorium imposed
15 pursuant to Subsection B of this Section.
16 (2) The suspension shall not apply to existing approvals for replacement
17 of existing nursing facilities, or approvals which are under judicial review, on
18 August 15, 1997. The suspension shall not apply to approvals for alternate use
19 of previously approved beds.
20 (3) In the case of previously approved but unbuilt nursing facilities or
21 beds, the department shall not suspend approval, certification, and enrollment
22 if construction has actually begun by June 30, 1998, and construction is
23 completed and the facilities or beds are actually certified and enrolled in the
24 Title XIX program by December 31, 1999. In such cases, the department shall
25 suspend approval, certification, and enrollment of previously approved beds not
26 certified and enrolled by December 31, 1999.
27 (4) In the case of previously approved but unbuilt nursing facilities or
28 beds, if construction has actually begun by June 30, 1998, and construction is
29 not completed and the facilities or beds are not actually certified and enrolled
30 in the Title XIX program by December 31, 1999, the secretary of the Louisiana
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1 Department of Health may authorize the certification and enrollment of the
2 beds by December 31, 2001. However, the extension shall not be granted unless
3 the secretary determines that construction has not been completed due to
4 circumstances beyond the control of the applicant, a written request for an
5 extension was made prior to December 31, 1999, and financing has been
6 approved for the beds. These provisions shall only be applicable in the case of
7 a facility, the primary purpose of which is to replace an existing facility, but also
8 in so doing, enrolling additional beds.
9 §2116.2. Nursing facilities; cost effective measures
10 The Louisiana Department of Health may promulgate rules to
11 accomplish cost effectiveness of beds that include but are not limited to the
12 following:
13 (1) A bed abeyance program to reduce nursing facility beds by ten
14 percent or more. Such an abeyance program shall include a timeframe in which
15 a determination is made as to whether beds should be brought out of abeyance
16 based upon a ninety-three percent occupancy rate within a service area.
17 (2) An increase in the minimum occupancy level required for a nursing
18 facility to fully recover its capital cost.
19 (3) A buy-back program, provided such a buy-back program is approved
20 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is eligible for federal
21 funds participation.
22 (4) A bed exchange program that allows a nursing facility to create adult
23 residential care beds based on the permanent elimination of existing nursing
24 facility beds.
25 * * *
26 §2180.2. Promulgation of rules
27 The department shall promulgate, in accordance with the Administrative
28 Procedure Act, licensing standards, rules, and regulations, regarding, but not limited
29 to the following:
30 * * *
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1 (12) The Louisiana Department of Health shall develop and implement
2 policies and procedures to require ICF/DD providers to notify new residents
3 and their families and guardians of sex offenders living in their facilities upon
4 admission. The notification shall continue for as long as the information is
5 considered a public record. During the annual licensing process, health
6 standards surveyors shall verify the providers' compliance with the policy.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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