Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) just cast the deciding vote for President Donald Trump’s budget bill on behalf on Rep.

The stakes are particularly high for Louisiana, which has one of the highest per-capita percentages of residents on Medicaid ...

Louisiana’s reliance on federal funds for half of the state budget leaves it vulnerable as President Donald Trump and ...

Louisiana’s reliance on federal funds for half of the state budget leaves it vulnerable as President Donald Trump and ...

In its 60 years, Medicaid has swelled from a small program that provided medical care to poor Americans receiving cash ...

An investigation revealed that Community Health allegedly created a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program by offering ...

In 2023, he ruled that Planned Parenthood had to return millions in funding it received from Texas and Louisiana’s Medicaid programs and used to provide services to low-income patients.

And Johnson’s support shows that convincing members with large Medicaid populations to go along is possible. His recently reconfigured western Louisiana district has long been one of the most ...

For many low-income older adults, Medicaid is a crucial lifeline that fills the gaps left by Medicare. While Medicare provides essential health coverage, it often falls short in areas such as oral ...

State Medicaid officials propose raising monthly premiums for some families and to have others pay more for prescription drugs to generate nearly $27 million for Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s two-year ...

he also cautioned the roughly dozen lawmakers about making cuts to Medicaid. Trump made clear he was OK with putting work requirements in place, but he warned against spending cuts that impact the ...