Full Coverage Physical and Behavioral Health Benefits

Medicaid has several programs that provide health coverage for Louisiana residents.

If you need health coverage, we may have a program for you.

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Apply for any Medicaid program.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Louisiana Medicaid provides health care coverage to children and families who meet certain income qualifications.

LaCHIP offers health insurance to children.

LaCHIP Affordable Plan covers children whose parents earn too much to qualify for LaCHIP.

Medicaid Purchase Plan helps people with disabilities keep Medicaid benefits they qualify for while they work.

Family Opportunity Act Medicaid lets higher-income families who have children with disabilities buy in to the Medicaid program for health care coverage.

Act 421 Children’s Medicaid Option (TEFRA), for certain children under the age of 19 with disabilities who meet an institutional level of care. Provides full medical coverage to children whose assets do not exceed $2,000 in value and whose income does not exceed three times the federal benefit rate.

LaMOMS offers no-cost health coverage to pregnant women for all prenatal and delivery care.

Medicaid Expansion provides health coverage to adults between the ages of 19 and 64, who meet other qualifications.

Long-Term Care Services, which Medicaid offers to qualified individuals either in a facility or in their homes.

Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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