Medicaid

States were prohibited from removing people from Medicaid during the pandemic.

Louisiana Medicaid has received approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement a new payment model for hospitals that is based on Medicaid utilization.

The Louisiana Department of Health, based on the concurrence received from the Division of Administration (DOA), Office of State Procurement (OSP), and the Commissioner of Administration, intends to award managed care organization (MCO) contracts.

Scammers try to generate commissions by booking Medicare beneficiaries into a new plan. Insurance agents are not allowed to make cold calls to solicit business, so agents sometimes engage outside marketers to call Medicare beneficiaries and promise to put them into “a better” plan. In fact, the call has nothing to do with placing someone in a more appropriate plan and may often result in the Medicare beneficiary ending up in a worse plan.

Republicans bristling about the rising price tag of Louisiana's Medicaid program on Tuesday questioned whether the state health department was doing…

Older adults may not have complete information about their health insurance. They may not know where -- or how -- to find correct answers. The Senior…

There will be an effort in the upcoming legislative session to raise the age from 18 to 21-years-old to legally purchase or possess tobacco and vaping…

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy called Wednesday on Louisiana's health secretary to resign after an audit said her agency may have spent as much as $85 million on…

In spite of several initiatives over the past six years to prevent early births, defined as a birth that takes place more than three weeks before a due…

Louisiana Department of Health announces that 37,000 medicaid enrollees eligibility may end on July 1, 2018.