State leaders have agreed to a short-term extension of UnitedHealthcare’s Medicaid contract following concerns from lawmakers ...

Legislators raised concerns about how the contract was set to end abruptly, potentially causing problems for patients.

Just a week after Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration confirmed the sudden end of a $4.2 billion Medicaid contract that ...

Louisiana will drop Medicaid contracts with Aetna and UnitedHealthCare, forcing nearly 488,500 residents to switch plans ...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration has partially reversed course and decided to cut one Medicaid plan instead of two in 2026.

A sudden shake-up in Louisiana’s medicaid system is leaving many families unsure about their health coverage heading into the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill have been battling some of the nation’s largest health care companies in ...

Louisiana lawmakers signed off last week on one-year extensions to the state’s six biggest government contracts, collectively worth more than $17 billion. The agreements are with the six health care ...

The UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn., lowered its flags to half-staff on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in honor ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Louisiana Department of Health failed to properly oversee some $2.4 billion in Medicaid spending aimed at improving the health of the state’s neediest patients, according to a new report from the ...