SLS 22RS-4400 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 211
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Requests the Louisiana Department of Health to implement a
policy prohibiting excessive Medicaid reauthorizations for patients using life-sustaining
devices.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health to implement a policy prohibiting
3 Medicaid managed care organizations from requiring an excessive amount of
4 reauthorizations for patients utilizing life-sustaining devices.
5 WHEREAS, "life-sustaining device" is defined by the Centers for Medicare and
6 Medicaid Services as a device that is essential to, or that yields information that is essential
7 to, the restoration or continuation of a bodily function important to the continuation of
8 human life; and
9 WHEREAS, patients prescribed life-sustaining devices are burdened with a number
10 of outside factors that inhibit a patient's access to care, such as travel barriers, geographic
11 disparities, clinician shortages, and appointment availability; and
12 WHEREAS, an increased frequency of required reauthorizations when a patient's
13 life-sustaining medical needs have not changed places an undue burden on prescribing
14 physicians and patients.
15 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
16 does hereby urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health to implement a policy
17 prohibiting Medicaid managed care organizations from requiring an excessive amount of
18 reauthorizations for patients utilizing life-sustaining devices.
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the policy should require each Medicaid
2 managed care organization to provide a minimum effective period of one year for a
3 reauthorization to prevent patients using life-saving devices from having any disruption in
4 care or services as well as to prevent overburdening prescribing physicians.
5 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
6 secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Brandi Cannon.
DIGEST
SR 211 Original 2022 Regular Session Boudreaux
Requests the La. Department of Health to implement a policy prohibiting Medicaid managed
care organizations from requiring an excessive amount of reauthorizations for patients
utilizing life-sustaining devices.
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