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House extends nursing-home moratorium for four years after debate over capacity and market effects
Summary
The Louisiana House passed HB199 to extend the moratorium on new nursing-home beds for four years, adopting an amendment requiring the Department of Health to track occupancy and hospital-to-nursing-home transfers; supporters cited workforce and cost concerns, opponents warned of entrenching underperforming facilities.
The Louisiana House on March 30 approved House Bill 199 to extend the moratorium on new nursing‑home beds for four years, voting 88 to 11 to finally pass the measure.
Chairman Brett Miller, speaking as sponsor, said the extension reflects a long-term policy to move care toward home-based services and avoid creating more empty beds that raise costs and stretch an already thin nursing workforce. “We increased payments at the time to in‑home sitters,” Miller said in floor remarks outlining the bill’s history…
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