Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part I - General Administration › Subpart 5 - Health Planning › Chapter 129 - Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) Need and Application Reviews › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section I-12901 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Definitions.
					 When used in this Chapter the following terms and phrases shall have the
					 following meanings unless the context requires otherwise.
Applicant
- the individual or legal
						entity who is applying to open an OTP.
Applicant Representative
- the person
						specified by the applicant on the application form who is authorized to respond
						to Department of Health and Hospital questions regarding the OTP application
						review process and to whom written notifications are sent relative to the
						status of the application during the review process.
Applicant Review Period-
the period of
						time in which the review is conducted.
Approval
- a determination by the
						Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) that an application meets the criteria
						of the OTP application review.
Approved
-opioid treatment programs
						which are grandfathered in accordance with the grandfather provisions of this
						program and/or opioid treatment programs approved in accordance with the OTP
						application review.
Committee
-The Opioid Treatment Program
						(OTP) application review committee.
Department
- the Department of Health
						and Hospitals (DHH) in the state of Louisiana. The following is a list of
						pertinent sections.
DHH Administrative Regions
-The
						administrative regions and the parishes which comprise these regions are as
						follows:
a. Region I: Orleans, Plaquemines, Jefferson, and St.
						Bernard;
b. Region II: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East
						Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, and West
						Feliciana;
c. Region III: Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St.
						James, St. John, St. Mary, and Terrebonne;
d. Region IV: Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St.
						Landry, St. Martin, and Vermilion;
e. Region V: Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and
						Jefferson Davis;
f. Region VI: Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant,
						LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon, and Winn;
g. Region VII: Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne,
						DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine, and Webster;
h. Region VIII: Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin,
						Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and
						West Carroll; and
i. Region IX: Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany,
						Tangipahoa, and Washington.
Health Standards Section (HSS)
-Section
						of Bureau of Health Services Financing, DHH that surveys, licenses and serves
						as the regulatory body for health care facilities in the state, including
						opioid treatment programs.
Methadone Maintenance Program
-see
Opioid Treatment Program.
Notification
- is deemed to be given on
						the date on which a decision is mailed by DHH by certified mail to the last
						known address of the applicant.
Office for Addictive Disorders (OAD) or its
						successor organization
-DHH office and single state agency that is
						statutorily responsible for the treatment and prevention of addictive
						disorders.
Opioid Treatment Program (OTP)
- a
						program engaged in medication-assisted opioid treatment of individuals with an
						opioid agonist treatment medication.
Opioid Treatment Program Application
						Review
- a review of applications to select an OTP to be licensed once
						a need has been determined.
Opioid Treatment Program Need Review
- a
						review to determine whether there is a need for new or additional OTPs in a
						certain geographic location.
Secretary
- the Secretary of the
						DHH.
State Opioid Treatment Authority
- the
						OAD authority within DHH designated to exercise the responsibility and
						authority within the state for governing the treatment of opiate addiction with
						an opioid drug.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						40:1058.1 et
						seq.