(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week he answered pre-submitted questions from the public on a tightly controlled Zoom call ... House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) echoed the claim. When a GOP senator responded to ...

BOB PAVLOVICH: Alice, let's start with a little background. What do we know about the population who is on Medicaid in Louisiana? ALICE RIENER: So, there are 1.6 million individuals in ...

Trump and Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana have claimed the raucous ... Instead, he said he’ll hold a series of online Zoom meetings to address constituents’ concerns.

There are over 79 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid. When the White House budget office released a memo this week that instructed all federal agencies to cease spending on any financial ...

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 ...

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.

Louisiana has shed over 160,000 people from its Medicaid rolls since federal protections keeping the insurance intact during the pandemic ended in April, according to state data. Of those ...