Louisiana renews $17B Medicaid contracts as lawmakers push for better oversight, higher provider payments and improvements to ...

Getty Images On his first day on the job Monday, Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the launch of two initiatives – one to target Medicaid fraud and another to reduce ...

Republican Gov Jeff Landry's budget proposal proposes increasing state spending on health care by $1.5 billion in the next fiscal year. (Getty Images) Gov. Jeff Landry has made public moves to cut ...

Volunteers of America does not have to face trial in a False Claims lawsuit after convincing a judge the national organization can’t be dragged into a case based on allegations against an affiliate.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Medicaid in Louisiana, one of the state’s largest expenses, provides healthcare for more than 1.6 million people. Typically, when a beneficiary dies, they are removed from ...

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 diagnoses for Hailey Bowen’s 12-year-old son came one after another. First, it was severe ADHD. Then autism. Related challenges followed, including difficulties with mood regulation and anxiety.

Louisiana Governor and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal has cancelled the state’s contract that provides Planned Parenthood with state Medicaid funds, according to The Hill. Gov. Jindal ...

Louisiana’s Medicaid program has a new name. Formerly “Bayou Health,” it is now called “Health Louisiana,” as of May 2, according to Nola.com. A new website has been developed for Healthy Louisiana, ...

According to the bureau, the Louisiana Department of Health submitted a criminal referral alleging that Gregory and Antoinette Hammond, of New Orleans.