RS 2155 - Licensure of behavioral health services providers
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 the parish in which the provider's business office is located, any parish contiguous to the parish in which the provider's business office is located, and any distance within a fifty mile radius of the provider's business office.
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.
Acts 2013, No. 308, §1, eff. June 17, 2013; Acts 2021, No. 372, §2.