Proposal to include partial hospitalization services is moving forward, but only after lawmakers removed a key component to ...

In the legislative session's final hours, Louisiana lawmakers called on Congress to halt sweeping federal Medicaid cuts and ...

State lawmakers — both Republican and Democrat — are sounding the alarm on proposed cuts that could strip Medicaid coverage ...

High stakes in Louisiana Louisiana expanded Medicaid in 2016 ... people sort of inevitably fall through the cracks." Butler routinely sees what happens when coverage lapses.

Louisiana and other states have started to cull ... disenrollment process closely to see if people are falling through the cracks. “We need to get them back into Medicaid if they qualify,” Boudreaux ...

Louisiana has one of the highest ... Energy's Health subcommittee that gets a first crack at the bill this week. House committee members working on Medicaid budget plans have been told not to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"When you add layers of bureaucracy and reporting, people sort of inevitably fall through the cracks." About 69% of adults on Medicaid in Louisiana do work, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.