HB 449 – Louisiana

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2020
Link: https://legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=238165

Provides relative to behavioral health services delivered via telehealth. Existing law, the Louisiana Telehealth Access Act (R.S. 40:1223.1 et seq.), defines “telehealth”, in part, as a mode of delivering healthcare services that utilizes information and communication technologies to enable the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of patients at a distance from healthcare providers. New law amends this definition to provide that healthcare services delivered via telehealth include behavioral health services. Stipulates that, for purposes of new law, “behavioral health services” means those services as defined in existing law that are appropriate for the patient and delivered by a licensed mental health professional, acting within the scope of applicable state laws and his professional license for services identified by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), to treat mental illness or substance use.


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