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Baton Rouge – Two drug manufacturers accused of defrauding the Medicaid Rebate Program by inflating prices have agreed to national settlements that will regain Louisiana more than $1.5 million in lost money.
Enrolling in the Louisiana Medicaid program has become faster and more efficient thanks to an online application process now available through the Department of Health and Hospitals Web site.
The West Jefferson Medicaid Office reopened this week on the fourth floor of the state office building at 2150 West Bank Expressway in Harvey. This is the same address, but on a different floor, as where the Medicaid office operated from before Hurricane Katrina.
Federal health officials now get the chance to say yes or no to a proposal by the State of Louisiana to expand health care coverage to more uninsured children.
The Department of Health and Hospitals Medicaid Office has recently received numerous complaints from Medicaid clients and applicants who have received phone calls from people posing as Medicaid representatives requesting personal information. The calls are being reported in different areas throughout the state.
An estimated 9,000 additional uninsured Louisiana children will be eligible to sign up for state health care benefits over the next year through an expansion of the Louisiana Children’s Health Insurance Program (LaCHIP).
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is reminding current and potential participants of the Greater New Orleans Health Service Corps program that doctors and providers are not required to dedicate 30 percent of their practice to treating Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured patients.
More than 1,800 children have health care coverage today than they did last month following a week-long effort to enroll New Orleans-area children in available health care programs. State health officials and advocates for children are applauding the effort as one of the most successful one-time events to enroll children into the Louisiana Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The Rayville-based Medicaid office supporting Richland and Madison Parishes will move to a new location on Monday, May 7 in an effort to provide more convenient service for area residents.
A Department of Health and Hospitals report conducted by LSU’s Public Policy Research Lab is providing a new estimate of the number of uninsured residents in Louisiana.
Poorer women and children in Louisiana are more likely to qualify for Medicaid health care coverage than if they lived in all but 10 other states. This finding was reported by Public Citizen, a national advocacy group, in a report entitled, Unsettling Scores: A Ranking of State Medicaid Programs.