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 ...

The federal government pays for most of the Medicaid program; Louisiana and other states share some of the costs. The program was created by Congress and President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

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 ...

Louisiana's 2 million Medicaid recipients will receive pink letters this week as the first warning of a nationwide Medicaid purge that could cause as many as 350,000 Louisianans to lose their ...

Louisiana Medicaid enrollment declined in June for the first time in the last year, with more than 3,000 falling off the rolls since May. That decline is expected to accelerate as Louisiana begins ...

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, through doing this, is definitely being a leader in trying to use these available resources to streamline and make enrollment efficient,” Samantha Artiga, a Medicaid expert at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana Illuminator) - Louisiana took 275,000 people off Medicaid from the end of June through December, as it complies with renewed federal standards for the government-backed ...