Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Payroll deduction authorization shall not be transferred. B. Approval of an applicant in no way constitutes endorsement or certification of the applicant or vendor or its products or services.

A. The purpose of these rules is to establish and implement effective injury control measures for employers in high rate classifications with insurance experience modifier (E-MOD) rates of 1.5 or greater.

A. The Office of Workers' Compensation shall prepare and adopt such forms for use in workers' compensation cost containment as it may deem necessary and advisable. Whenever the Office of Workers' Compensation's forms are prescribed and are applicable, they shall be used. A photo …

A. Cost containment meetings can be requested and will be held upon request between June and September of each year.

A. An employer's eligibility shall be based on its experience modifier rate of December 31 of the prior year. B. The incentive discount provided in R.S. 23:1178(C) shall be based on the employer’s next effective experience modifier rate after its certified attendance at a cost co…

A. A verified application Form LW-WC-Form No. 1021, together with proof that the attendee is a person in a position of authority within the company, must be received 15 days prior to the scheduled meeting to guarantee consideration. Proof may include, but shall not be limited to,…

A. In order to obtain a certificate of attendance, LW-WC-Form No. 1024 at a cost containment meeting, the attendee must have qualified as a designated representative as defined in R.S. 23:1176(1). At the meeting, the designated representative shall submit a picture identification…

A. Only eligible employers who have a certificate of attendance Form LW-WC-Form No. 1024 issued within the last four years may apply for participation in the Occupational Safety and Health Program. B. An application for participation in the Occupational Safety and Health Program …

A. Upon completion of surveys of all existing sites of a business, OSHA shall issue to the employer an official inspection report with identified hazards and safety program deficiencies and a timetable for taking corrective actions.

A. The standards used by the Office of Workers' Compensation Administration, OSHA section, in determining a participant's satisfactory implementation of the Occupational Safety and Health Program shall be those provided in Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Sections 191…

A. When the official inspection report contains any recommendation for correction of hazards or program deficiencies, the employer must submit proof of compliance. The OSHA section may require a follow up inspection to verify satisfactory implementation.

A. A certificate of satisfactory implementation, LW-WC-Form No. 1024, shall be issued only to those eligible employers who have not qualified for a reduction pursuant to R.S. 23:1179.C in the prior four years.

A. Any safety and health hazard survey of the work place by the OSHA section consultants, including an evaluation of the employer's safety and health program and on-site interviews with employers and employees under R.S. 23:1179, shall be on-site inspections. All permanent, tempo…

A. Employers shall be eligible for a reduction in their experience modifier rate pursuant to R.S. 23:1179 when all of the following conditions are met: 1. satisfactorily implementation of the OSHA section's occupational safety and health program when the initial and follow-up pha…

A. An employer that fails to qualify for the reduction in the experience modifier rate under R.S. 23:1179 because of a determination that the employer has not satisfactorily implemented the OSHA section's occupational safety and health program or because of its loss work day inci…

A. Comprehensive program assessment shall be accomplished by category and by order that applications are received. 1. Category I shall consist of sites which have 250 employees or less, and 500 or less total employees at all sites controlled by the employer, based on the average …

A. The incentive discount provided in R.S. 23:1179.B shall be based on the employer's next effective modifier rate after its certified satisfactory implementation of an approved occupational safety and health program. A certificate shall be issued by the Office of Workers' Compen…

A. The following is an example of a public notice to be placed in the local newspaper for intention to submit a permit application to the Office of Environmental Services for existing/proposed waste tire processing facilities and collection centers. PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUB…

A. Appendix B Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Financial Assurance Documents For Waste Tire Facilities The following documents are to be used to demonstrate financial responsibility for the closure of waste tire facilities. The wording of the documents shall be ident…

A. Most of the planning which appears throughout this document can be considered "area level planning" since analyses of the health status and the state's health system are presented with emphasis on area-specific differences and needs. Many of the implementation strategies plann…

A. New Orleans/Bayou-River Health System Area 1. There are 34 general (non-federal) hospital facilities located in the New Orleans/Bayou-River area. Current patient bed to population ratio is 5.6/1,000 general population. The ratio in planning district I (New Orleans) is 6.26/1,0…

A. New Orleans/Bayou-River Health System Area 1. The New Orleans/Bayou-River area is predominantly urban, with a higher per capita income, more physicians and more hospital beds than elsewhere in the state. Yet the area has the highest mortality rate in the state. Mortality rates…

A. Introduction. For the purpose of this planning analysis, long term care services are those direct services needed by persons functionally impaired by advancing age, physical or developmental disability, chronic disease, or recuperating from acute illness. Services are both ins…

A. The following planning objectives for mental health and substance abuse apply to all areas of the state. 1. By 1985, information on the availability, accessibility, and appropriate use of primary mental health care services should be available to all residents of the state. 2.…

A. The following planning objectives for emergency medical services apply to all areas of the state: 1. By 1987, the resource goals for emergency medical services established in the State Health Plan 1982-87 should be met. 2. By 1985, mobile EMS resources conforming to the requir…

A. New Orleans/Bayou-River Health System Area 1. Planning goals for health status improvements in the New Orleans/Bayou-River area: a. Cancer Mortality: To reduce the number of deaths attributable to cancer; b. Premature Mortality from disease: To reduce the number of deaths due …

A. All documents submitted to accomplish alterations to vital records in the custody of the state registrar shall be certified, true copies of the original instrument. No alteration may be made to an original signature. All alterations shall be effected as set forth in Volume 9, …

A. At the expiration of six months, all files which do not evidence activity during that period shall be closed and all documents submitted shall be returned to the customer.

A. All alterations of original birth, death, and marriage certificates maintained by the Vital Records Registry pursuant to R.S. 40:33 shall be accomplished by the interlinear method of drawing a line through the old information and entering the new information. The line shall no…

A. Attention is called to R.S. 13:4751 through R.S. 13:4755, concerning "change of name." In addition to other requirements set forth therein, certain requisites must be met if the birth record on file on the vital records registry is to reflect the results of proceedings under t…

A. Delayed Birth Certificates—Six Months to 12 Years 1. In instances where there exists no birth certificate of record of a person born in Louisiana, who is six months to 12 years of age ion file with the Vital Records Registry, an applicant shall be furnished an application with…

A. In instances where there exists no death certificate of record, of a death or stillbirth occurring in the state, the coroner or medical examiner, the funeral director, or the hospital or institution wherein the death occurred shall complete a certificate of death based on thei…

A. Orleans Parish Only 1. Marriage certificates of persons married in Louisiana are filed with the clerk of court in the parish where the marriage license was purchased, except in Orleans Parish, where the marriage certificates are filed with the Vital Records Registry of the Off…

A. The Children’s Choice (CC) Waiver is a home and community-based services (HCBS) program that offers supplemental support to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) who currently live in the community or who will leave an institution to return to the comm…

A. The Children’s Choice Waiver is available to individuals who: 1. are from birth through age 20; 2. have a developmental disability as specified in R.S. 28:451.2; 3. are on the registry unless otherwise specified in §11105 and §11107; 4. meet all of the financial and non-financ…

A. Individuals shall be denied admission to or discharged from the Children’s Choice Waiver if one of the following criteria is met: 1. the individual does not meet the financial eligibility requirements for the Medicaid Program; 2. the individual does not meet the requirements f…

A. The Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration is a federal demonstration program awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the department. The demonstration is a transition program that targets individuals using qualified institutional service…

A. The intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) request for services registry, hereafter referred to as “the registry,” shall be used to identify individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who are waiting for an OCDD waiver opportunity. B. Individuals w…

A. This regulation is issued pursuant to the authority vested in the commissioner under the provisions of R.S. 49:953 of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 22:3 and 22:250.2(E)(2)(b) and (c), and R.S. 22:250.4.F, and 22:250.11.E and 22:250.15.A, regarding the coverage of a ne…

A. The purpose of this regulation is to establish reasonable requirements and standards for the processing of such coverage by health insurance issuers that assures compliance with state requirements under Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended. More speci…

A. Except as otherwise specifically provided, the requirements of this regulation shall apply to health insurance issuers, including health maintenance organizations, as required pursuant to R.S. 22:2001 et seq., of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended.

A. As used in this regulation, these terms shall have the following meaning. Cancellation for Nonpayment of Premium―the cancellation of coverage for a newborn child who was added as a dependent due to the nonpayment of the applicable premium adjustment for the additional coverage…

A. Upon notification of the birth of a newborn child who is potentially eligible under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, the health insurance issuer shall be required to: 1. verify that dependant coverage is available for the newborn child or make a determination that no cove…

A. The health insurance issuer shall be required to comply with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 with regard to the enrollment procedures relative to dependent coverage for a non-qualifying newborn child.

A. In cases where the time for the payment of a claim may be effected by the requirements of R.S. 22:250.4 et seq., such requirements shall be considered "just and reasonable grounds" for a health insurance issuer to delay in the payment of a claim pursuant to R.S. 22:250.31 et s…

A. A health insurance issuer that does not comply with any of the time limits for action or notice set forth in this regulation, or who does not provide all of the information required in this regulation, shall be subject to the sanctions set forth in R.S. 22:1457.

A. If any Section or provision of this regulation or the application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity or determination shall not affect other Sections or provisions or the application of this regulation to any persons or circumstances that can be giv…

A. This regulation shall be effective upon final publication in the Louisiana Register.

A. The purpose of this Chapter is to establish procedures for the reporting of information regarding hazardous materials that are in transit and/or temporarily stored at a facility and that could present a threat to human health and the environment if compromised during a Categor…

A. This Chapter applies to all persons who are engaged in the transportation of hazardous materials by railcars, vessels, or barges, or the temporary storage of hazardous materials in any storage vessel not permanently attached to the ground, that is within the confines of a pari…