A new Louisiana law will go into effect on Aug. 1, requiring employers to provide time off work for genetic testing and cancer screening.
The new law requires employers in Louisiana to provide employees a one-day leave of absence from work to obtain genetic testing or cancer screening, as long as it is medically necessary.
What is Medically Necessary?
"Medically necessary" is defined as healthcare services that are in accordance with generally accepted, evidence-based medical standards by most physicians or independent licensed practitioners "within the community of their respective professional organizations to be the standard of care."
The law also states that to be medically necessary services being provided must be "reasonably necessary to diagnose, correct, cure, alleviate, or prevent the worsening of a condition or conditions that endanger life, cause suffering or pain, or have resulted or will result in a handicap, physical deformity, or malfunction, and those for which no equally effective and less costly course of treatment is available or suitable for the recipient."
Services that are experimental and not approved by the Federal Drug Administration are not considered medically necessary. Nor is an investigational or cosmetic surgery.
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