LAC 50:XV.7315. Provider Qualifications

A. Personal care services shall be provided by a licensed personal care services agency which is duly enrolled as a Medicaid provider. Staff assigned to provide personal care services to a beneficiary shall not be a member of the beneficiary’s immediate family. Immediate family is defined as the father, mother, sister, brother, spouse, child, grandparent, in-law, or any individual acting as parent or guardian of the beneficiary. Personal care services may be provided by a person of a degree of relationship to the beneficiary other than immediate family, only if the relative is not living in the beneficiary’s home, or, if she/he is living in the beneficiary’s home solely because her/his presence in the home is necessitated by the amount of care required by the beneficiary. B. An unrelated staff member of a licensed personal care services provider may not live in the same home as the beneficiary.