Proposal to include partial hospitalization services is moving forward, but only after lawmakers removed a key component to ...

A proposal to expand Louisiana’s Medicaid coverage for mental health to include partial hospitalization services is moving ...

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

The federal government pays for most of the Medicaid program; Louisiana and other states share some of the costs. The program was created by Congress and President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

The program has ballooned to more than one-third of the state’s budget and added hundreds of thousands of people during the pandemic. Louisiana lawmakers are trying a new approach to determine ...

Louisiana also isn’t alone in seeing soaring Medicaid costs. All states are seeing Medicaid expenses go up this year, in part because Medicaid enrollees appear to be sicker than expected ...

Louisiana will expand its Medicaid program in January to include more children with developmental disabilities whose parents made too much money to qualify under prior eligibility rules.

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 ...

Louisiana lawmakers are ... state’s putting up $1.8 billion of the cost from its general fund. But estimating — and restraining — the program’s price tag can be difficult. Many costs associated with ...