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

The Louisiana Department of Health is extending its Medicaid contract with UnitedHealthcare for 90 days. This extension ...

Louisiana Medicaid will begin covering doula services for eligible beneficiaries starting in January 2026. A doula is a ...

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 ...

Louisiana’s latest search for contractors to manage the health care services of nearly 1.6 million Medicaid patients is taking longer than expected. It’s blown past an early November timeline for ...

Walking across the Baton Rouge Community College campus on a recent Tuesday, Jaylin Davis didn’t know he was about to stumble upon some incredibly good news: He’s likely to get no-cost health care ...

Expanding Medicaid in Louisiana helped thousands of people get cancer treatment, colonoscopies and diabetes diagnoses. But it has yet to make even a dent in the state’s infant mortality crisis. The ...

Louisiana Medicaid enrollment declined in June for the first time in the last year, with more than 3,000 falling off the rolls since May. That decline is expected to accelerate as Louisiana begins ...

Louisiana's Medicaid population has been using emergency rooms more frequently for health care, far surpassing the 2012 rate for the higher-cost medical services. But those recently enrolled under ...