La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § V-703

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-703 - Special Dental Clinic: Handicapped Children's Dental Clinic

200 Henry Clay Avenue

New Orleans, LA70118

A. Objectives, Scope of Activities and Charges

1. The objectives of this program are to effectively coordinate and administer dental care offered to children in the state's Handicapped Children's Program and to improve the quality and increase the quantity of the services.

2. Comprehensive dental care is provided.

3. Oral surgery, hospitalization and operating room services are provided by the Handicapped Children's Program.

4. No charges will be made for dental care at the Handicapped Children's Dental Clinic except to the extent that payments will be made by a third party (including a government agency) which is authorized or under legal obligation to pay such charges.

B. Eligibility

1. Children registered in the state's Handicapped Children's Program are eligible.

2. Persons must be 20 years of age or under to be eligible.

3. Persons with a handicapping condition are eligible to receive diagnostic and emergency dental services.

4. A waiver of guidelines may be granted by the chief, Dental Health Section, to handicapped children of low income families (see appendix) who are not otherwise eligible for the Handicapped Children's Program because they suffer from a handicapping condition which is not treated by the program.

5. Other siblings in a family with a child on the Handicapped Children's Program are not eligible for this clinic.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § V-703

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Preventive and Public Health Services, LR 13:246 (April 1987).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:5.