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Slidell Physician Sentenced to Over 7 Years for Illegal Opioid Distribution and $5.4M Health Care Fraud
Louisiana doctor Adrian Talbot sentenced to 87 months for distributing opioids and committing health care fraud.
Louisiana Lawmaker Advocates for Adding Work Requirement to Medicaid: 'Best Way to Get on Your Feet Is to Get Off Your Ass'
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, a Republican, has advocated for the addition of a work requirement to Medicaid, which would ...
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Louisiana Doctor Sentenced To Over 7 Years For Illegal Opioid Distribution, Healthcare Fraud
A Louisiana physician has been sentenced to 87 months (over 7 years) in federal prison for conspiring to illegally distribute ...
Non-life threatening ER visits to be eliminated under new state health program
Recent data shows 20 percent of Medicaid patients visit the ER 17 times a year for non-life threatening issues.
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Trump's freeze on federal money puts Louisiana agencies, nonprofits on uncertain ground
Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and ...
The Senate Republican who could play a key role in RFK Jr.‘s confirmation
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana quietly conducted a revealing cross-examination of Kennedy on Wednesday, ahead of the ...
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Louisiana Department of Health launches pilot program to streamline ER utilization
In partnership with Acadian Health, the Louisiana Department of Health’s Medicaid program announces an emergency room (ER) ...
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R.F.K. Jr. Appears Unfamiliar With Key Elements of Medicare and Medicaid
By Sarah Kliff and Reed Abelson In a tense exchange with Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. displayed a surprising lack of familiarity with Medicare and Medicaid ...
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Are deep Medicaid cuts in store for the nation's poor? Here's what Kennedy would do.
"Do you think all that money, the $900 billion we're sending to Medicaid every year, has made Americans healthy?" Kennedy said. When quizzed by Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and a ...