RS 1250.31 - Dental care for certain adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities; Medicaid coverage required
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.
(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.
Acts 2021, No. 450, §1.
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.