2022 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 211
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the Louisiana 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.
WHEREAS, "life-sustaining device" is defined by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services as a device that is essential to, or that yields information that is essential
to, the restoration or continuation of a bodily function important to the continuation of
human life; and
WHEREAS, patients prescribed life-sustaining devices are burdened with a number
of outside factors that inhibit a patient's access to care, such as travel barriers, geographic
disparities, clinician shortages, and appointment availability; and
WHEREAS, an increased frequency of required reauthorizations when a patient's
life-sustaining medical needs have not changed places an undue burden on prescribing
physicians and patients.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the Louisiana 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the policy should require each Medicaid
managed care organization to provide a minimum effective period of one year for a
reauthorization to prevent patients using life-saving devices from having any disruption in
care or services as well as to prevent overburdening prescribing physicians.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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