La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § LIII-2401

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024
Section LIII-2401 - Definitions

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

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Pharmacy, LR 39:502 (March 2013).
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1182.