CHAPTER 46. HEALTH ACTION PLANS

§2616. Diabetes annual action plan; submission; content

            A. The Louisiana Department of Health shall submit an action plan, after consulting with and receiving comments from the medical director of each of its contracted Medicaid partners, to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and the House Committee on Health and Welfare no later than February first of each year on the following:

            (1) The financial impact and reach diabetes of all types is having on the state of Louisiana and its residents. Items in this assessment shall include the number of lives with diabetes covered by Medicaid through the Louisiana Department of Health and its contracted partners, the number of lives with diabetes impacted by the prevention and diabetes control programs implemented by the department and its contracted partners, the financial cost diabetes and its complications places on the department and its contracted partners, and the financial cost diabetes and its complications places on the department and its contracted partners in comparison to other chronic diseases and conditions.

            (2) An assessment of the benefits of implemented programs and activities aimed at controlling diabetes and preventing the disease.

            (3) A description of the level of coordination existing between the Louisiana Department of Health, its contracted partners, and other stakeholders on activities, programmatic activities, and the level of communication on managing, treating, or preventing all forms of diabetes and its complications.

            (4) The development of a detailed action plan for battling diabetes with a range of actionable items. The plan shall identify proposed action steps to reduce the impact of diabetes, prediabetes, and related diabetes complications. The plan shall identify expected outcomes of the action steps proposed while establishing benchmarks for controlling and preventing diabetes.

            (5) The development of a detailed budget blueprint identifying needs, costs, and resources to implement the plan identified in Paragraph (4) of this Subsection.

            B. The Louisiana Department of Health shall include within the annual diabetes action plan the most current editions of the standards of medical care in diabetes by the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

            Acts 2013, No. 210, §1, eff. June 10, 2013; Acts 2014, No. 713, §1.