Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 50 - PUBLIC HEALTH-MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Part XXIX - Pharmacy
Chapter 9 - Methods of Payment
Subchapter D - Maximum Allowable Costs
Section XXIX-947 - Payments to Dispensing Physician

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XXIX-947

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

A. Payment will be made for medications dispensed by a physician on a continuing basis only when his main office is more than five miles from a facility which dispenses drugs.

1. Under the above circumstances, vendor payments (when the treating prescriber dispenses his own medications and bills Medical Assistance Program under his own name will be made on the same basis as a pharmacist as specified in §945. A 1-2.

B. A prescriber who has a sub-office in an area more than five miles from a pharmacy or other facility dispensing medications will not be paid for medications he dispenses if his main office is within five miles of a pharmacy or other facility dispensing medications.

C. When a prescriber bills Medicaid for medications he dispenses, he shall certify that he himself, or a pharmacist, dispensed the medications and he shall maintain the same records as required of the pharmacist.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 36:254 and Title XIX of the Social Security Act.

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