The Louisiana Department of Health covered $103 million in ineligible Medicaid costs according to a newly-released audit ...

Various proposals had floated in the U.S. House that could have severely affected the state's health care system.

About two years ago, an audit found that millions of dollars were lost because the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) paid ...

Louisiana lawmakers are trying a new approach to determine how much the state will spend on Medicaid services each year, as the program has ballooned to more than one-third of the state's budget ...

Nearly all of Louisiana Medicaid recipients receive coverage through a managed care company. The thinking goes that the company handles the day-to-day coverage, which makes Medicaid costs more ...

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana is becoming ... she had struggled to cover the costs of inhalers and other medication, whose costs she estimated at $300 a month. Medicaid expansion will help her pay ...

critics say there's a lot of waste in Medicaid. A recent audit from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor found that one program spent more than half of expenses on administrative costs. Is there any ...

the Louisiana Legislature considered a similar work requirement they found that the increase in administrative costs would limit the cost savings. In 2023, Georgia created its own Medicaid ...