In a rare joint guest column, leaders of major hospitals and health systems from across Louisiana warn that potentially steep cuts to Medicaid under consideration in Washington would deeply damage ...

Louisiana has of the nation’s highest percentage of residents on Medicaid.

President Donald Trump's budget bill cuts Medicaid. Here's what it means for Louisiana.

President Trump's proposed bill has sparked concerns in Louisiana over potential Medicaid cuts and rural hospital closures, with state leaders divided on its impact.

With federal lawmakers weighing cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, health care leaders in Louisiana are sounding the alarm, warning that reductions in funding could devastate access to care for hundred… ...

As the “big, beautiful bill” teeters towards passage in the Senate, every major health system in Louisiana sent a letter Saturday to the state’s entire congressional delegation, including ...

Proposed federal Medicaid cuts could jeopardize dozens of rural hospitals in Louisiana, where one in three residents relies on the program for care.

In many cases, Medicaid is the largest and most reliable payer for rural hospitals. While Louisiana’s overall uninsured rate plummeted to 8.3% by 2023, in Mississippi it was 10.5%.

‘Uniquely vulnerable’: Louisiana girds for megabill fallout Cuts to federal health care and food assistance programs would have deep ramifications in the state.

Feeding Louisiana, the state association representing five food banks, organized a Zoom conference to explain how decisions and disruptions in Washington, D.C., are already having dire effects on ...

Louisiana senators urged to protect SNAP, Medicaid benefits in Trump-backed bill A coalition of social service organizations, physicians and others say La. residents will suffer from such cuts ...