Louisiana's Medicaid costs are skyrocketing—and with potential federal cuts on the horizon, state officials are warning of ...

Just a few days after a regular session ended, Louisiana lawmakers are bracing for up to a $4 billion loss in federal ...

The Senate is beginning to consider Republican leadership’s tax and budget reconciliation legislation. Follow this space for ...

Senate president says cuts in federal Medicaid funding could force the Louisiana Legislature into special session to offset the cuts.

(The Center Square) − The Louisiana Department ... are automatically enrolled in Medicaid through other qualifying programs, such as Supplemental Security Income, without additional scrutiny ...

LDH, according to Schowenn, already does much of the same processing for Medicaid ... chart. The reorganization would leave DCFS focused on child welfare and protective services, while ...

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.

BATON ROUGE, La. — In your Breakdown: Congressmen from Louisiana are not in agreement on the future of Medicaid as lawmakers battle over budget cuts in Washington. Republicans in Congress are ...

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 ...

Almost a third of people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. And hundreds of providers rely on federal reimbursements to operate. But funding for the program is under threat. The Trump administration ...

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) States like New York and California, but also Louisiana ... women and children. This chart shows the share of Medicaid/CHIP recipients per 100 inhabitants ...