Louisiana may lose over $128M in federal funds under Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, with the state health department facing the biggest cuts.

MANSFIELD, La. — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that ...

A new state audit found more than $250 million in questioned federal costs at the Louisiana Department of Health — and ...

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program comprehensive health coverage ... but ranges from 11% in Utah to 34% in New Mexico. In Louisiana, 31.9% have Medicaid — the second-highest rate ...

The six private health insurance companies who run most of Louisiana’s Medicaid program said they had more money because their Medicaid enrollees used more expensive health care services than ...

He said, “Some of these programs do not work well for the ... and Medicaid will further impact the bottom line. “And Louisiana, we depend on Medicaid dollars. We’re an expansion state.

Almost a third of people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. And hundreds of providers rely on federal reimbursements to operate. But funding for the program is under threat. The Trump administration ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Republicans would protect entitlement programs as they press ahead with ...

If Medicaid funding is significantly reduced, states may struggle to afford providing the current scope of required benefits ...

Within the program’s first three years, the state paired 32,000 Medicaid enrollees with existing federally funded job training programs. Most had higher wages a year after starting training ...

The Louisiana Department of Health, which runs the state's Medicaid program and scores of initiatives aimed at improving public health, may lose tens of millions of dollars in funding due to ...