About 69% of adults on Medicaid in Louisiana do work, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. A lot of people at risk of ...

A joint effort of Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) Secretary Alan Levine and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to combat Medicaid fraud is yielding positive results for Louisiana ...

Louisiana has one of the highest ... Energy's Health subcommittee that gets a first crack at the bill this week. House committee members working on Medicaid budget plans have been told not to ...

Senate Bill 179 requests the legislative auditor to review and report on the 1,692 Medicaid recipients who reported income in excess of $100,000 a year in 2017. In February, the Louisiana Department ...

and improved program integrity to crack down on Medicaid fraud. Louisiana has suffered enough from the near-constant turmoil of annual budget crises. Instead of digging deeper with more taxes and ...

Louisiana Senate Finance Committee removed public money meant to expand the use of private education vouchers in spite of the ...

Louisiana and other states have started to cull ... disenrollment process closely to see if people are falling through the cracks. “We need to get them back into Medicaid if they qualify,” Boudreaux ...

Louisiana is usually ranked within the top five states with the greatest percentage of their budgets coming from federal funding, and residents who depend on Medicaid for health insurance or on ...

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

But without Louisiana's new Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' decision to extend Medicaid benefits to everyone ... his fellow inmates were starting to crack: They'd stop grooming themselves ...

Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the launch of two initiatives – one to target Medicaid fraud and another to reduce the number of overdose deaths during pregnancy.

"When you add layers of bureaucracy and reporting, people sort of inevitably fall through the cracks." About 69% of adults on Medicaid in Louisiana do work, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.