Service Results for Medicaid

Medicaid provides medical benefits to low-income individuals and families. Although the federal government establishes the general rules for Medicaid, specific requirements are established by each state. In Louisiana, over a million residents receive health care coverage through Medicaid, most of whom are children under 19. The Louisiana Medicaid Program operates within the Louisiana Department of Health.

Providing services to your community is vital to your facility and it is the goal of the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH). In 1992, LDH began recruiting and approving facilities statewide to become Application Centers for the task of assisting applicants with Medicaid applications. Application Centers make the Medicaid process more accessible to every citizen of Louisiana.

Download a LaHIPP application here, complete it and submit it in one of the three ways.

How to Appeal a Medicaid Decision

A Medicaid program that may pay for the cost of your private health insurance premium, when it is determined to be cost-effective for the State.

On January 12, 2016, Governor John Bel Edwards signed an executive order (JBE 16-01) to begin the process for expanding Medicaid in Louisiana no later than July 1, 2016. Expansion has made Medicaid available to more than 400,000 people living in Louisiana who did not previously qualify for full Medicaid coverage and could not afford to buy private health insurance.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) is a federal law that prevents health care service plans from imposing more restrictive benefit limitations on mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits than on medical/surgical coverage.