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HB760 • 2026

MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Peter Egan
Last action
2026-03-09
Official status
Pending House Health and Welfare
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

What This Bill Does

  • MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-09 H

    Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.

  3. 2026-02-27 H

    Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.

  4. 2026-02-27 H

    Prefiled.

Official Summary Text

MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for certain treatments

Current Bill Text

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HLS 26RS-1249 ORIGINAL
2026 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 760
BY REPRESENTATIVE EGAN
MEDICAID: Provides relative to unauthorized fees charged by healthcare providers for
certain treatments
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 46:440.3, relative to unauthorized payment practices; to provide for
3 unauthorized co-payments to healthcare providers; to provide for termination or
4 exclusion from the Medicaid program; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 46:440.3 is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 §440.3. Unauthorized fees or co-payments
8 A healthcare provider who is enrolled in the medical assistance programs and
9 who has accepted a recipient as a patient shall accept the medical assistance program
10 payment as payment in full for any covered service where a prescription is issued for
11 medication-assisted treatment. A healthcare provider shall not charge a fee or
12 co-payment to a recipient for a covered service unless expressly authorized by the
13 medical assistance programs. A violation of this Section shall result in the
14 healthcare provider being terminated or excluded from participation in the medical
15 assistance programs for a period not to exceed one year as determined by the
16 Louisiana Department of Health.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.
HLS 26RS-1249 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 760
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 760 Original 2026 Regular Session Egan
Abstract: Prohibits unauthorized co-payments to healthcare providers related to certain
treatments.
Proposed law provides that a healthcare provider shall not accept any payments other than
reimbursement through the Medicaid program for services related to medication-assisted
treatments.
Proposed law prohibits a healthcare provider from charging fees or a co-payment in addition
to receiving reimbursement through the Medicaid program without the permission of the La.
Dept. of Health (LDH).
Proposed law provides that a violation of proposed law may result in termination or
exclusion from the Medicaid program for no more than one year based on a determination
of LDH.
(Adds R.S. 46:440.3)
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions.