A. As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this Section.
Durable Medical Equipment (DME)-technologically sophisticated medical devices that may be used in a residence, including the following:
a. oxygen and oxygen delivery system;
b. ventilators;
c. respiratory disease management devices;
d. continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices;
e. electronic and computerized wheelchairs and seating systems;
f. apnea monitors;
g. transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator (TENS) units;
h. low air loss cutaneous pressure management devices;
i. sequential compression devices;
j. feeding pumps;
k. home phototherapy devices;
l. infusion delivery devices;
m. distribution of medical gases to end users for human consumption;
n. hospital beds;
o. nebulizers; and
p. other similar equipment as determined by rule.
Legend-an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, or other similar or related article, including any component part or accessory, which is required under federal law to bear the label, "Caution: federal or state law requires dispensing by or on the order of a physician" and/or "Rx Only," or any other designation required under federal law.
Legend Drug-
a. any substance recognized as a drug in the official compendium, or supplement thereto, designated by the board for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of diseases in humans or animals;
b. any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals; or
c. any substance other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals.
Medical Gas-compressed oxygen and liquid oxygen intended for human consumption.
La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § LIII-2401