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Tracked issues with at least one Louisiana record since Apr 27, 2026.
Louisiana Illuminator
The Louisiana Illuminator reported that the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget renewed contracts with four Medicaid plans covering about 1.2 million people.
Louisiana Illuminator
The Louisiana Illuminator reported that Louisiana Healthcare Connections, one of the state’s four Medicaid plans, may stop covering Ochsner Health System after December 1.
Louisiana Illuminator
The Louisiana Illuminator reported that the state health department opened a monthlong period for Healthy Blue Medicaid members to pick a new plan for 2027.
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court gave AbbVie until November 4 to ask it to review the Fifth Circuit ruling upholding Louisiana's Act 358.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS approved Louisiana's reentry demonstration for October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2031. It covers case management, medication-assisted treatment and office visits for up to 60 days before release.
Louisiana Department of Health
Louisiana's health department told state budget lawmakers that 46,283 Medicaid adults facing work rules have no income and 11,778 earn too little.
Louisiana Department of Health
The Louisiana Department of Health asked budget lawmakers to extend its four remaining Medicaid plan contracts. The extensions are projected at $16.08 billion for 2027.
Louisiana Department of Health
The Louisiana Department of Health announced that its Medicaid managed care contract with Healthy Blue ends December 31, 2026, with members enrolled in one of four remaining Healthy Louisiana plans effective January 1, 2027.
Baton Rouge Weekly Press
Capitol City Family Health Center Inc., doing business as CareSouth Medical and Dental, received HRSA New Access Points funding to expand its Howell Boulevard site in North Baton Rouge for women's health, primary care…
Louisiana Department of Health
Pursuant to 42 CFR 431.420(c), the Louisiana Department of Health will hold a public forum on the Healthy Louisiana Substance Use Disorder 1115 Demonstration Waiver…
Access Health Louisiana
Observed July 16, Access Health Louisiana's first-party St. Tammany–Slidell page lists clinic hours of 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday–Friday and 8:00 a.m.–noon Saturday and says same-day appointments are available.
CrescentCare
CrescentCare reported that it was enrolling and actively providing services to New Orleans Musicians' Clinic patients ahead of the planned July 1, 2025 transfer of services previously provided through LSU.
DePaul Community Health Centers
DePaul Community Health Centers says applications are open for five positions in its 2026–27 Family Nurse Practitioner residency.
RKM Primary Care
Observed July 16, RKM Primary Care's first-party Clinton Lower page lists on-site prenatal and postpartum care, obstetrics through 24 weeks, gynecological care, voluntary family planning, behavioral-health medication management and counseling…
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH's Budget Year 1 Rural Health Facilities Capital Improvement NOFO made $39.9 million available and required applications by July 10, 2026, so the window is now closed rather than upcoming.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH's live Rural Health Transformation Program page lists four Budget Year 1 application deadlines that had all passed by August 14, 2026: August 5 for Rural Collaborative Provider Models, August 7 for the Rural Medicaid Alternative Payment Model…
Louisiana Department of Health
The Budget Year 1 Rural Clinician Credit Bank made $5.63 million available to rural employers, including rural FQHCs, for recruitment and retention payments to eligible clinicians.
Louisiana Legislature
Governor Landry signed SB 194 on June 1 as Act 745, effective August 1, 2026.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH announced 15 second-round H.E.R.O. Fund grants totaling $4,656,720 after Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approval on May 31.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH's revised June 29 NOFO anticipates up to $30 million for Budget Year 1 of the Rural Medicaid Alternative Payment Model, with applications due August 7, 2026.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH announced June 16 that certain designated high-risk Medicaid provider categories will be revalidated every three years instead of every five, with off-cycle review for high-risk providers lacking a recent revalidation.
Louisiana Legislature
Louisiana's enacted FY2027 capital-outlay law, Act 4, lists $17.525 million for renovation of Northwestern State University's Nursing Education Center at Warrington Place in Shreveport: $7 million in Priority 1 general-obligation bonds and $10.525 million in…
NOLA.com / The Times-Picayune
A March 18 report quotes Louisiana health officials projecting about 21,000 people will lose Medicaid under the January 2027 work requirements after subtracting people already working or expected to qualify for exemptions and applying national compliance…
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH's current RHTP program page states that the project is supported by a CMS/HHS financial-assistance award totaling $208,374,447.57, with 100% federal funding.
Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA's latest published Louisiana Health Center Program UDS summary covers calendar 2024 and reports 36 program awardees serving 487,947 patients. Of those patients, 262,506 used Medicaid or CHIP and 77,451 were uninsured.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH says members renewing in January 2027 were to receive a work-requirement notice in May 2026 and a renewal packet with work-requirement materials in November.
Louisiana House Fiscal Division
The Louisiana House Fiscal Division's final FY2026 state-budget summary records a $26.3 million LDH reduction labeled 'historical Medicaid forecast and OMV Data Sharing.' It separately lists $2.9 million for 750 Community Choice Waivers…
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's summary judgment for Louisiana on pharmaceutical manufacturers' challenges to Act 358 while reversing the denial of an intervention motion.
KADN News 15
A July 1, 2025 KADN report about the then-pending federal budget measure said Senate documents identified more than 40 Louisiana rural hospitals as potentially affected, including six in Acadiana: Iberia Medical Center, Ochsner St. Mary…
Louisiana Department of Health
Governor Landry's April 7 executive action established the Office of Rural Health Transformation and Sustainability within LDH and an RHTP Advisory Council.
Louisiana Legislature
Governor Landry signed SB 433 as Act 898 on June 9.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS's official award table lists Louisiana at $208,374,448 for the 2026 Rural Health Transformation Program funding cycle.
Louisiana Economic Development
Louisiana Economic Development and LDH launched the Rural Tech Catalyst Fund on May 27 as an RHTP-supported initiative connecting providers, entrepreneurs, investors, universities, and technology companies.
National Association of Community Health Centers
NACHC's current funding page states that annual discretionary health-center funding expires September 30, 2026, and mandatory Community Health Center Fund authority expires December 31, 2026.
Louisiana Department of Health
LDH's official page says some nonexempt adults ages 19-64 must, starting January 1, 2027, document at least 80 hours per month of approved work, education, training, or volunteering, earn at least $580 per month, or attend school at least part-time.
Louisiana Legislature
Act 745's enrolled text limits its listed definition of qualified alien for Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and marketplace plans to lawful permanent residents, Cuban or Haitian entrants, and people lawfully residing under a Compact of Free Association.
Louisiana Legislature
Governor Landry signed HB 181 as Act 624 effective June 2, 2026.
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