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Louisiana will turn to AI to detect Medicaid fraud, health officials say
The AI technology is being trained on national data and peer-reviewed publications that have identified fraud, and it will ...
Louisiana health officials launch new initiatives for Medicaid, maternal overdose crisis
LDH announced several initiatives aimed at improving public health and Medicaid program integrity, including a task force to ...
House Speaker Johnson is eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it's a lifeline.
Among them is Chloe Stovall, 23, who works in the produce aisle at the SuperValu grocery store in Vivian, Louisiana. She said ...
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Louisiana Medicaid set to grow under Landry, even as D.C. may force cuts
Required costsThe six private health insurance companies that run most of Louisiana’s Medicaid program said they had more money because their Medicaid enrollees used more expensive health care ...
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Louisiana has the second-highest rate of Medicaid coverage in the country. See parish data.
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 Breakdown: Louisiana delegation at odds over Medicaid cuts
About 20 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, but that number is nearly 35 percent in Louisiana. BATON ROUGE, La. — In your Breakdown: Congressmen from Louisiana are not in agreement on the ...
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The House Speaker’s eyeing big cuts to Medicaid. In his Louisiana district, it’s a lifeline.
About 118,000 of them are in the program thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which allowed states including Louisiana to expand Medicaid to cover low-income adults, many of whom were working in ...
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Louisiana has the second highest rate of Medicaid coverage in the country. See parish data.
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 ...