NEW ORLEANS — If you are one of the 2 million people on Medicaid in Louisiana, there is important action you need to take. With the COVID-19 emergency over, you will now need to go back to ...

Obesity weight loss pills could be covered by Louisiana Medicaid as a bill makes its way through the state legislature.

Louisiana started moving 330,000 Medicaid recipients last week out of insurance plans UnitedHealthcare offers at the direction of Attorney General Liz Murrill, who is suing the company. The Louisiana ...

Louisiana lawmakers signed off last week on one-year extensions to the state’s six biggest government contracts, collectively worth more than $17 billion. The agreements are with the six health care ...

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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 ...

Medicaid has been at the center of much of the health care and budget debate this year in Washington and Baton Rouge. Here is a primer on the program. What is Medicaid? It's a government program that ...

Distance traveled to a provider has been associated with access to and timely use of health care services. Medicaid expansion has been previously linked to an increase in the number of providers ...

President Trump's big budget law is expected to make the largest cuts ever to Medicaid, a program that currently provides health insurance for some 70 million Americans. As Lisa Desjardins reports, ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has made public moves to cut state government spending in recent weeks, following the lead of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and its dramatic reductions ...