(The Center Square) − The Louisiana Department of Health covered $103 million in ineligible Medicaid costs according to a newly-released audit report. An audit by the Louisiana Legislative ...

WASHINGTON – For months, much of Louisiana fretted over how Republicans would revamp Medicaid. Various proposals had floated in the U.S. House that could have severely affected the state's ...

The Louisiana Department of Health could soon use artificial intelligence to root out fraud, waste and abuse in the state’s Medicaid program, a sign of Elon Musk’s continuing influence on ...

About 118,000 of them are in the program thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which allowed states including Louisiana to expand Medicaid to cover low-income adults, many of whom were working in low ...

Louisiana’s heath care budget is set to increase almost $1.5 billion next fiscal year under the spending plan Landry unveiled a few weeks ago. Medicaid is fueling the growth, accounting for $19 ...

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 common story amongst the people we meet is that they were never provided notice that they lost Medicaid nor given the chance to appeal," Fong said. "They usually only find out that they have ...

After a judge sided with federal health officials, Florida has gone to an appeals court in a dispute involving a program that has helped generate billions of dollars in Medicaid money for hospitals.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Louisiana Illuminator) - Louisiana removed 197,000 people from its Medicaid rolls over a five-month period from June to October, as it complies with renewed federal standards for ...

A federal appeals court said the Louisiana Legislature should have until January 15 to revise its congressional district map before a constitutional challenge to the plan moves forward.

Expanding Medicaid in Louisiana helped thousands of people get cancer treatment, colonoscopies and diabetes diagnoses. But it has yet to make even a dent in the state’s infant mortality crisis.