Louisiana lawmakers pass resolution asking Congress to halt Medicaid cuts and collaborate with states on responsible reform ...

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

The Louisiana Department of Health covered $103 million in ineligible Medicaid costs according to a newly-released audit ...

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.

A proposal to expand Louisiana’s Medicaid coverage for mental health to include partial hospitalization services is moving ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Louisiana spent between $60 and $85 million providing Medicaid coverage to recipients who were ineligible for the program because they made too much money since the ...

The program has ballooned to more than one-third of the state’s budget and added hundreds of thousands of people during the pandemic. Louisiana lawmakers are trying a new approach to determine ...

Louisiana also isn’t alone in seeing soaring Medicaid costs. All states are seeing Medicaid expenses go up this year, in part because Medicaid enrollees appear to be sicker than expected ...

The Louisiana Department of Health could soon use artificial intelligence to root out fraud, waste and abuse in the state’s Medicaid program ... rival products in cost-efficiency and speed ...

Louisiana's 2 ... be purged to potential low-cost options, according to reporting from the Louisiana Illuminator "We want all Louisianans who are eligible for Medicaid to stay covered,” said ...

Louisiana lawmakers are trying a new approach to determine how much the state will spend on Medicaid services each year, as the program has ballooned to more than one-third of the state's budget ...