Recent data shows 20 percent of Medicaid patients visit the ER 17 times a year for non-life threatening issues.

Louisiana Department of Health’s Medicaid program announces an emergency room (ER) utilization reduction pilot program launching this month across the 12 parishes comprising Region 4 (Acadiana) and ...

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s ...

Louisiana doctor Adrian Talbot sentenced to 87 months for distributing opioids and committing health care fraud.

Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, has advocated for the addition of a work requirement to Medicaid, which would ...

Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements. ...

A NEW SET OF TARIFFS BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL TAKE EFFECT, AND THEY COULD DRAMATICALLY CHANGE THE WAY YOU GET ...

Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician and key G.O.P. vote, joined Democrats in aggressively questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about Medicare and Medicaid, programs that affect tens of millions of Americans.

While Democrats blasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for previous comments on vaccines and some Republicans teed him up for stump ...

The Republican Party is eyeing sweeping cuts to Medicaid, a program that the poorest Americans rely on for health care, to finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and plans for mass deportation.

Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and ...