Louisiana Code — 46
Browse 871 sections in division 46 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § RS 46:1. Definitions
- § RS 46:2. Administration of oaths
- § RS 46:3. Trustees or administrators shall not be interested in contracts with or sales to charitable institutions; penalties
- § RS 46:4. Parish appropriations in aid of charity hospitals
- § RS 46:5. Parish appropriations in aid of charity hospitals of adjoining states
- § RS 46:6. Admission criteria to state-supported charity hospitals
- § RS 46:7. Questionnaire for applicant; fraud or misrepresentation; penalties
- § RS 46:8. Subrogation to right of action for patient's injuries against employer or third person
- § RS 46:9. Copy of petition to be served on hospital when patients sue for injuries
- § RS 46:10. Compromise of claim not to affect rights of the hospital
- § RS 46:11. Proceedings for recovery of charges due hospitals
- § RS 46:11.1. Intervention in personal injury and workers' compensation suits
- § RS 46:12. Prima facie truth of pleadings of hospitals
- § RS 46:13. Persons liable for charges when patient comes within employer's liability laws
- § RS 46:14. Discouraging the abuse of state charity hospital aid
- § RS 46:15. Counsel for hospitals
- § RS 46:16. Sale or lease of state-owned facilities; procedure
- § RS 46:17. Indigent defined; collection of charges by state-owned hospitals
- § RS 46:18. Health care records; copies
- § RS 46:51. Duties of the department
- § RS 46:51.1. Contribution to cost of foster care by parent
- § RS 46:51.1.1. Child support programs; foster care; rights; responsibilities
- § RS 46:51.2. Criminal history and central registry information
- § RS 46:51.3. Criminal history information; access to federal tax information
- § RS 46:52. Duties of the secretary
- § RS 46:52.1. Integrated case management; service integration of various social service programs
- § RS 46:53. Transfer of appropriations to department by other state agencies, public or private entities, including any health care provider; procedure; purpose; expenditures
- § RS 46:54. Parish offices
- § RS 46:55. Duties of the parish office
- § RS 46:56. Applications and client case records; definitions; confidentiality; waiver; penalty
- § RS 46:56.1. Reporting of certain case records; confidentiality waiver
- § RS 46:57. Other records to be public records
- § RS 46:58. Preservation of records
- § RS 46:59. Welfare demonstration, experimental and other projects
- § RS 46:60. Educational leaves with pay; federal funds
- § RS 46:61. Elderly abuse; release of information
- § RS 46:101. State public assistance fund
- § RS 46:102. Powers of the Department of Children and Family Services
- § RS 46:102.1. Maximum assistance grants; legislature to approve increases or decreases
- § RS 46:103. Parish administration
- § RS 46:104. Applications for assistance
- § RS 46:105. Investigation of application
- § RS 46:106. Grant of assistance
- § RS 46:107. Appeal and review; venue for judicial review
- § RS 46:108. Periodic reconsideration of assistance grants
- § RS 46:111. Assistance not assignable
- § RS 46:112. Payment for funeral of recipient
- § RS 46:113. Reports
- § RS 46:114. Fraud in obtaining assistance; withholding information concerning property, income, or beneficiary, or personal circumstances
- § RS 46:114.1. Public Assistance Fraud Hot-Line
- § RS 46:114.2. Attempting or aiding to obtain assistance fraudulently; penalties
- § RS 46:114.3. Regional fraud detection units; investigative subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum
- § RS 46:114.4. Fraud Detection Fund
- § RS 46:115. Application; terms mandatory
- § RS 46:116. Prima facie proof of pleadings
- § RS 46:121. Definitions
- § RS 46:122. Louisiana Military Family Assistance Fund
- § RS 46:123. Louisiana Military Family Assistance Board
- § RS 46:151. System of adult services
- § RS 46:153. Medical assistance; estate recovery program
- § RS 46:153.1. Appropriation to state agencies
- § RS 46:153.2. Retention of moneys by state agencies
- § RS 46:153.3. Medical vendor reimbursements; allowable restrictions; peer-based prescribing and dispensing practice patterns; Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee
- § RS 46:153.3.1. Medicaid medication therapy management
- § RS 46:153.3.2. Medicaid prescription medication for chronic or acute pain; opioid alternatives
- § RS 46:153.4. Medicaid Estate Recovery, legislative findings
- § RS 46:153.5. Mental health rehabilitation providers; accreditation
- § RS 46:154. Financial assistance to other persons
- § RS 46:155. Incapacity required
- § RS 46:156. Supplementary assistance to persons who are aged, blind, or have disabilities
- § RS 46:157. Prosthetic dentures; eligibility; rules and regulations
- § RS 46:158. Prohibition of discrimination against dental care services
- § RS 46:159. Prohibition of discrimination against podiatric services
- § RS 46:159.1. Hospice care pilot program; rules and regulations
- § RS 46:191. Title
- § RS 46:192. Definitions
- § RS 46:193. Utility relief
- § RS 46:194. Eligibility criteria
- § RS 46:230.1. Legislative intent
- § RS 46:231. Aid to needy families; definitions
- § RS 46:231.1. Family Assistance Programs; prohibitions; requirements
- § RS 46:231.2. Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program; benefits; eligibility
- § RS 46:231.3. FITAP benefits; prohibited uses
- § RS 46:231.4. Immunization compliance; exceptions
- § RS 46:231.5. Public assistance recipients; parenting skills education; condition of eligibility
- § RS 46:231.6. Termination of eligibility; twenty-four-month limit; refusal of employment
- § RS 46:231.12. Employment, education, and related services for FITAP participants; responsibilities of the secretary, agencies, and participants
- § RS 46:231.13. Retailer fees for access to cash assistance benefits
- § RS 46:231.14. Prohibited retailers, goods, and services; penalties; appeals
- § RS 46:232. Investigations and reports
- § RS 46:233. Eligibility for assistance; amount and conditions of aid
- § RS 46:233.1. Recovery of overpayments
- § RS 46:233.3. Individuals convicted of certain felonies; eligibility for assistance
- § RS 46:233.4. Verification of citizenship of applicants for public benefits
- § RS 46:234. Judicially appointed curator
- § RS 46:234.1. Disposition of undeliverable assistance checks
- § RS 46:234.2. Receipt of assistance payments
- § RS 46:235. Distribution of funds in violation of provisions
- § RS 46:236. Administration of emergency assistance to needy families with children
- § RS 46:236.1.1. Family and child support programs; definitions
- § RS 46:236.1.2. Family and child support programs; responsibilities
- § RS 46:236.1.3. Family and child support programs; authority of the secretary
- § RS 46:236.1.4. Family and child support programs; financial institution duties; responsibilities
- § RS 46:236.1.5. Family and child support programs; FITAP; other service recipients; rights; responsibilities
- § RS 46:236.1.6. Family and child support programs; records
- § RS 46:236.1.7. Family and child support programs; liability
- § RS 46:236.1.8. Family and child support programs; additional authorized employee actions
- § RS 46:236.1.9. Family and child support programs; duties; courts; agencies; party status
- § RS 46:236.1.10. Family and child support programs; consumer reporting authority
- § RS 46:236.1.11. Family and child support programs; insurance companies; data matching and cooperation; responsibilities
- § RS 46:236.1.12. Transfer of child support obligation to third party
- § RS 46:236.2. Redirection of support payments
- § RS 46:236.3. Enforcement of support by income assignment
- § RS 46:236.5. Expedited process for establishment of paternity and establishment or enforcement of support; hearing officers
- § RS 46:236.6. Failure to pay support; procedure, penalties and publication
- § RS 46:236.7. Order of support; stipulation by district attorney and party
- § RS 46:236.8. Medical support orders; health insurance enforcement
- § RS 46:236.9. Collection of child support; cooperative program
- § RS 46:236.10. State case registry of child support orders
- § RS 46:236.11. Louisiana disbursement unit for child support payments
- § RS 46:236.11.1. Notice of payment
- § RS 46:236.11.2. Deposit, distribution, and issuance of payments
- § RS 46:236.11.3. Official child support payment record
- § RS 46:236.11.4. Administrative review of child support payment record
- § RS 46:236.12. Plan for parental participation of support; required work activities
- § RS 46:236.13. Privilege on proceeds collected from third party in favor of the Department of Children and Family Services for executory child support arrears
- § RS 46:236.14. Employer reporting program
- § RS 46:236.15. Limited administrative authority for certain paternity and child support actions
- § RS 46:236.16. Child support mortgage and privilege by affidavit; effect of filing
- § RS 46:237. Kinship Care Subsidy Program
- § RS 46:238. Unpaid child support; release of information
- § RS 46:281. Applicability
- § RS 46:282. Investigation of foster and adoptive parent applicants
- § RS 46:283. Determination of fitness; award of contract
- § RS 46:284. Confidentiality of records of investigation; penalty
- § RS 46:285. Required training for child protection and foster care workers
- § RS 46:286. Foster home child care; reimbursement system; rules
- § RS 46:286.1. Kinship Foster Care Program
- § RS 46:286.2. Children in foster care; identification card; photograph
- § RS 46:286.11. Short title
- § RS 46:286.12. Purpose
- § RS 46:286.13. Rights
- § RS 46:286.16. Short title; purpose; rights
- § RS 46:286.21. Short title
- § RS 46:286.22. Findings and intent
- § RS 46:286.23. Standard of care; application
- § RS 46:288.1. Short title
- § RS 46:288.2. Definitions
- § RS 46:288.3. Eligibility; notice
- § RS 46:288.4. Extended foster care voluntary placement agreement
- § RS 46:288.5. Written court report; filing
- § RS 46:288.6. Jurisdiction; findings; closure of court case
- § RS 46:288.7. Internal administrative reviews
- § RS 46:288.8. Termination
- § RS 46:288.9. Extension of subsidy
- § RS 46:288.10. Rulemaking
- § RS 46:301. Legislative findings; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program educational component; reporting requirements
- § RS 46:311. Legislative findings; purpose
- § RS 46:312. Task force on SNAP electronic benefits issuance; membership; purpose
- § RS 46:313. Termination
- § RS 46:321. Findings
- § RS 46:322. Definitions
- § RS 46:323. Goals
- § RS 46:324. Workforce training and education program; creation; functions
- § RS 46:325. Duties of customers
- § RS 46:326. Duties of the department
- § RS 46:327. Notification to legislative committees; reporting
- § RS 46:328. Termination of the program
- § RS 46:331. Findings and intent
- § RS 46:332. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program work requirements; restriction on waivers and exemptions
- § RS 46:351. Declaration
- § RS 46:352. Definitions
- § RS 46:353. Louisiana's pathway to independency workforce training and education pilot initiative; creation; advisory board; functions
- § RS 46:354. Administration; interagency agreements; participant forms; program promotion
- § RS 46:355. Reporting
- § RS 46:356. Rulemaking
- § RS 46:401. Reciprocal agreements regarding interstate transportation of poor and indigent
- § RS 46:402. Construction of Part
- § RS 46:431. Curator for receipt and administration of welfare benefits
- § RS 46:432. Necessity for appointment; procedure
- § RS 46:433. Bond; account; oath and letters
- § RS 46:434. Final discharge of curator
- § RS 46:435. Costs
- § RS 46:437.1. Short title
- § RS 46:437.2. Legislative intent and purpose
- § RS 46:437.3. Definitions
- § RS 46:437.4. Claims review and administrative sanctions
- § RS 46:437.5. Settlement
- § RS 46:437.6. Injunctive relief; lis pendens; disclosure of property and liabilities
- § RS 46:437.7. Forfeiture of property for payment of recovery
- § RS 46:437.8. Venue
- § RS 46:437.9. Privilege; nondischargeability
- § RS 46:437.10. Continuing liability; assumption of liability
- § RS 46:437.11. Provider agreements
- § RS 46:437.12. Provider agreement requirements
- § RS 46:437.13. Powers and duties of the department
- § RS 46:437.14. Grounds for denial or revocation of enrollment
- § RS 46:438.1. Civil actions authorized
- § RS 46:438.2. Illegal remuneration
- § RS 46:438.3. False or fraudulent claim; misrepresentation; unlawful acts
- § RS 46:438.4. Illegal acts regarding eligibility and recipient lists
- § RS 46:438.5. Civil monetary penalty
- § RS 46:438.6. Recovery
- § RS 46:438.7. Reduced damages
- § RS 46:438.8. Burden of proof; prima facie evidence; standard of review
- § RS 46:439.1. Qui tam action; civil action filed by private person
- § RS 46:439.2. Qui tam action procedures
- § RS 46:439.3. Qui tam action procedures; alternative remedies
- § RS 46:439.4. Recovery awarded to a qui tam plaintiff
- § RS 46:440.1. Medical Assistance Programs Fraud Detection Fund
- § RS 46:440.2. Rewards for fraud and abuse information
- § RS 46:440.11. Legislative findings; declaration; purpose
- § RS 46:440.12. Definitions
- § RS 46:440.13. Recovery audit contractor program established; rulemaking
- § RS 46:440.14. Recovery audit contractors; required functions and tasks
- § RS 46:440.15. Healthcare provider appeals process
- § RS 46:440.16. Contractor performance oversight; penalties; protections
- § RS 46:440.21. Medicaid program integrity measures
- § RS 46:441. Surviving spouse of public assistance recipients; retention of benefits received during month of death
- § RS 46:442. Medicaid provider claims; period for filing
- § RS 46:443. Exemption of income and resources
- § RS 46:444. Cooperation with administrative agencies relative to interchange of information
- § RS 46:445. Minor emancipated by marriage; nursing care benefits
- § RS 46:446. Recovery of medical assistance payments; notice; pleadings; compromise; prescription; privilege for reimbursement of Medicaid payments
- § RS 46:446.1. Notice to department by insurance companies; payment of assigned claims; civil penalties
- § RS 46:446.2. Third-party liability; acquisition of rights
- § RS 46:446.3. Prenatal or preventive pediatric care; payment and reimbursement
- § RS 46:446.4. Payment for dependent children; reimbursement
- § RS 46:446.5. Participating providers; furnishing of services; collection of fees
- § RS 46:446.6. Definitions; requirements of health insurers for the right of the Louisiana Department of Health and of health care providers to recover in Medicaid claims
- § RS 46:447. Revision of standard of need; aid to families with dependent children; general assistance
- § RS 46:447.1. Public assistance recipients; family planning education; contraceptives
- § RS 46:447.2. Pregnant women and infants; access to health care; expansion of Medicaid eligibility
- § RS 46:447.3. In-hospital mental health care for adopted children; state's duty to furnish
- § RS 46:447.4. Inpatient treatment following a perinatal psychiatric diagnosis; Medicaid
- § RS 46:448. Emergency assistance information and referral
- § RS 46:449. Family responsibility program
- § RS 46:450. WIC Program; authorized vendor participation
- § RS 46:450.1. Electronic authorization and distribution of public assistance benefits and services
- § RS 46:450.2. Vehicles engaged in providing nonemergency, nonambulance transportation; inspection
- § RS 46:450.3. WIC participants; homeless
- § RS 46:450.5. Chronic kidney disease; evaluation; classification; criteria; healthcare coverage
- § RS 46:450.6. Election of Chafee Option
- § RS 46:450.7. Medicaid prescription drug benefit program
- § RS 46:450.8. Continuous glucose monitors; Medicaid coverage
- § RS 46:451. Medicaid reimbursement; midwifery services
- § RS 46:460.1. Submission of quarterly reports to the legislature
- § RS 46:460.3. Adult basic education; literacy training; vocational educational training
- § RS 46:460.4. Educational opportunities to promote self-sufficiency
- § RS 46:460.5. Earned income disregards for certain TANF recipients
- § RS 46:460.6. Individual development account
- § RS 46:460.7. Incentive Award Program; dropout reduction; teen pregnancy reduction
- § RS 46:460.8. TANF eligibility; teen parent living arrangements; work participation requirements; submission of waiver
- § RS 46:460.9. Waivers for victims of domestic violence
- § RS 46:460.10. Drug testing for certain adult recipients of public assistance; legislative policy; procedures
- § RS 46:460.31. Definitions
- § RS 46:460.33. Prior authorization form; requirements
- § RS 46:460.34. Step therapy; fail first protocols; requirements
- § RS 46:460.35. Exemptions
- § RS 46:460.36. Pharmacy reimbursement by managed care organizations
- § RS 46:460.37. Council on Medicaid Pharmacy Reimbursement; creation; composition, purpose, and duties of the council
- § RS 46:460.41. Definitions
- § RS 46:460.42. Claims payment for care rendered to newborns; reporting
- § RS 46:460.51. Definitions
- § RS 46:460.52. Exemptions
- § RS 46:460.53. Contract amendments; public notice
- § RS 46:460.54. Medicaid policies and procedures; procedure for adoption; required content
- § RS 46:460.61. Provider credentialing
- § RS 46:460.62. Interim credentialing requirements
- § RS 46:460.63. Physician participation; conditions for termination
- § RS 46:460.70. Timely filing of claims
- § RS 46:460.71. Claim payment information
- § RS 46:460.72. Medicaid managed care organization provider notice
- § RS 46:460.73. Medicaid managed care organization payment accountability
- § RS 46:460.74. Prior authorization; criteria; notice to providers
- § RS 46:460.75. Provider claim payment and information protection
- § RS 46:460.76. Prepayment review
- § RS 46:460.76.1. Medicaid physician reimbursement plan; Medicare rate comparability
- § RS 46:460.76.2. Medicaid pilot program; portable oxygen concentrator
- § RS 46:460.76.3. Claim information; third-party liability
- § RS 46:460.76.4. Prior authorization; suspension during state of emergency
- § RS 46:460.77.1. Behavioral health services claims; limitation on service hours; information required for payment
- § RS 46:460.77.2. Behavioral health services claim information; access by legislative auditor and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
- § RS 46:460.77.3. Staff training requirements
- § RS 46:460.77.4. Reimbursement for certain behavioral health services
- § RS 46:460.81. Right of providers to independent review; applicability
- § RS 46:460.82. Procedure for independent review; claims other than those for dental services
- § RS 46:460.83. Independent review; judicial appeal
- § RS 46:460.84. Costs
- § RS 46:460.85. Independent reviewer selection panel; procedure
- § RS 46:460.85.1. Dental claims review panel; procedure
- § RS 46:460.86. Independent reviewers
- § RS 46:460.87. Penalties
- § RS 46:460.88. Rules and regulations
- § RS 46:460.90. Procedure for independent review of dental claims
- § RS 46:460.91. Claims processing data; reports to legislative committees
- § RS 46:461. Infirm, sick and disabled paupers
- § RS 46:462. Farm or home may be provided
- § RS 46:463. Farms or manufactories recognized as public works
- § RS 46:464. Persons eligible