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§1250.31. Dental care for certain adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities;
Medicaid coverage required
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. until an Act of the Louisiana Legislature containing a
specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 366 of the 2022 Regular
Session becomes effective. See Acts 2022, No. 366.
A.
(1)The Louisiana Department of Health shall ensure that comprehensive Medicaid
coverage for dental care is provided to each person of age twenty-one or older who is
enrolled in any Medicaid waiver program for persons with developmental or intellectual
disabilities.
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. upon an Act of the Louisiana Legislature containing
a specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 366 of the 2022 Regular
Session becomes effectiv
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§1250.31. Dental care for certain adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities;
Medicaid coverage required
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. until an Act of the Louisiana Legislature containing a
specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 366 of the 2022 Regular
Session becomes effective. See Acts 2022, No. 366.
A.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health shall ensure that comprehensive Medicaid
coverage for dental care is provided to each person of age twenty-one or older who is
enrolled in any Medicaid waiver program for persons with developmental or intellectual
disabilities.
NOTE: Paragraph (A)(1) eff. upon an Act of the Louisiana Legislature containing
a specific appropriation of monies for the implementation of Act 366 of the 2022 Regular
Session becomes effective. See Acts 2022, No. 366.
A.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health shall ensure that comprehensive
Medicaid coverage for dental care is provided to all of the following persons:
(a) Each person of age twenty-one or older who is enrolled in any Medicaid waiver
program for persons with developmental or intellectual disabilities.
(b) Each Medicaid enrollee of age twenty-one or older who resides in an
intermediate care facility for people with developmental disabilities licensed in accordance
with the provisions of R.S. 40:2180 et seq.
(2) For purposes of this Section, "comprehensive Medicaid coverage for dental care"
means Medicaid coverage which reimburses for dental and oral health services including all
of the following:
(a) Diagnostic services.
(b) Preventive services.
(c) Restorative services.
(d) Endodontics.
(e) Periodontics.
(f) Prosthodontics.
(g) Oral and maxillofacial surgery.
(h) Orthodontics.
(i) Emergency care.
B. The Louisiana Department of Health shall not furnish any coverage required by
Subsection A of this Section until all of the following have occurred:
(1) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the provision of
such coverage.
(2) The legislature has appropriated the funding necessary for the provision of such
coverage.
NOTE: The La. Dept. of Health shall take all such actions as are necessary to make
the coverage required by the provisions of Section 1 of Acts 2021, No. 450, available to all
persons eligible for such coverage on or before July 1, 2022.