§2120.9. Comprehensive plan

A. The Louisiana Department of Health is hereby directed to develop a comprehensive plan to address the delivery of quality services to a person receiving home- and community-based services, and the department shall submit a written report to the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare by January 15, 2012.

B. The plan shall be developed with input from stakeholders and shall include action steps, recommended timelines, and identified necessary resources for implementation, and shall address the following:

(1) Accreditation - accreditation of home- and community-based service providers.

(2) Compliance - assurance that all home- and community-based service providers meet the standards for licensure and plan for monitoring to ensure ongoing compliance.

(3) Billing - appropriate revisions to streamline the procedures for the billing of home- and community-based services and the monitoring thereof to reduce fraud and errors.

(4) Cost reporting - mandatory cost reporting by providers of home- and community-based services to verify expenditures and for use in determining appropriate reimbursement rates.

(5) Support coordination - appropriate revisions to streamline the delivery of support coordination and ensure that these services are timely, cost-effective, and efficient. The department shall assess the current support coordination system, in conjunction with a stakeholders group, to include families, persons who utilize support coordination and providers of home- and community-based services and based on that assessment to implement revisions to reform and streamline the delivery of support coordination.

(6) Rate reimbursement - review of reimbursement rate methodologies to promote administrative efficiencies and reflect the cost of providing quality home- and community-based services. This is inclusive of but not limited to medication administration.

(7) Technology - utilization of technology to simplify the training, delivery, monitoring, and payment for home- and community-based services.

(8) Medicaid enrollment - revision to requirements for Medicaid enrollment to promote sustainable quality home- and community-based services.

(9) Medicaid delivery options - provide for the use of organized health care delivery systems as an option for the provision of Medicaid-funded home and community based services.

Acts 2011, No. 299, §2.