Louisiana has extended its Medicaid contract with UnitedHealthcare for three months. The extension provides more time for 330 ...

Doctors say disruptions in cancer screening tend to compound over time and could lead to higher mortality rates.

LOUISIANA (KTAL/KMSS) — Louisiana Medicaid will now cover additional services for pregnant women. House Bill 454 would require Medicaid coverage for maternity services provided by a doula, a trained ...

Louisiana has halted a contract with UnitedHealthcare to provide Medicaid coverage for roughly 333,000 people in Louisiana, less than a month before next year’s agreement was set to take effect.

Louisiana may lose up to $35 billion in Medicaid funds over 10 years Over 200,000 residents risk losing insurance under new law Community clinics brace for rising uninsured population and paperwork ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced an increase in Medicaid provider reimbursement rates. Greenstein said rates increased to 85% of the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — More than 300,000 Medicaid recipients in Louisiana will remain on their current health insurance plans, at least for now. State leaders have agreed to a short-term ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers Monday added $368 million in federal funding to the health department budget to keep from running out of money for the state’s Medicaid expansion program, ...

Transgender Louisianians will no longer receive Medicaid reimbursement for any gender-affirming care prescriptions if their provider uses certain gender-related diagnosis codes, according to multiple ...

Louisiana has halted a contract with UnitedHealthcare to provide Medicaid coverage for roughly 345,000 people in Louisiana, less than a month before the new contract term was set to take effect.

Just a week after Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration confirmed the sudden end of a $4.2 billion Medicaid contract that provides health insurance to more than 330,000 people, state officials backed off ...