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Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 40, § 2155. Licensure of behavioral health services providers

Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

A. All behavioral health services providers shall be licensed. No facility, agency, institution, person, society, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, group, or other legal entity providing behavioral health services may be established, operated, or reimbursed under the Medicaid program unless licensed as a behavioral health services provider to perform such care by the department.

B. (1) A license issued to a behavioral health services provider shall be valid for only one geographic location and shall be issued only for the person and premises named in the license application.

(2) The geographic service location for a public or private behavioral health services provider licensed pursuant to this Part shall be defined to include all of the following:

(a) The parish in which the provider's business office is located.

(b) Any parish contiguous to the parish in which the provider's business office is located.

(c) Any location within a fifty-mile radius of the provider's business office.

(3) A behavioral health service provider may operate within a fifty-mile radius of one designated offsite location.

(4) A licensed mental health professional or a provisionally licensed mental health professional acting within his scope of practice, who is employed by a behavioral health service provider licensed pursuant to this Part, may provide professional outpatient psychiatric services to any established client or patient, regardless of the client's or patient's particular location within the state.

C. A license pursuant to this Part shall be valid for twelve months, beginning the month of issuance, unless revoked or otherwise suspended prior to that date.

D. A license issued pursuant to this Part shall be on a form prescribed by the department.

E. A license pursuant to this Part shall not be transferrable or assignable.

F. A license issued to a behavioral health services provider shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.

G. A license issued to a behavioral health services provider shall list the types or modules of behavioral health services that the provider is licensed to provide.

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