Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1243.2 – A. The Louisiana Department of Health is authorized to seek approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of a program designed to reimburse non-state, governmental en
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1243.2
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A. The Louisiana Department of Health is authorized to seek approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of a program designed to reimburse non-state, governmental entities through the Medicaid program for outpatient behavioral health services to Medicaid recipients under the age of twenty-one.
B. The Louisiana Department of Health may develop and maintain a Medicaid upper payment limit financing methodology for the behavioral health services provided for in Subsection A of this Section. The disbursements of monies generated by the use of an upper payment limit methodology shall be made only in accordance with an approved waiver or state plan amendment. The source of the non-federal match for these payments may only be by voluntary certification of expenditures or intergovernmental transfer of funds.
Acts 2012, No. 650, §1, eff. June 7, 2012; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 40:1300.332 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.