BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — More than 300,000 Medicaid recipients in Louisiana will remain on their current health insurance plans, at least for now. State leaders have agreed to a short-term ...

Louisiana has halted a contract with United Healthcare to provide Medicaid coverage for roughly 333,000 people in Louisiana, less than a month before next year’s agreement was set to take effect.

Some Louisiana residents with Medicaid will have a new provider in the new year after a contract was not renewed for a major Medicaid provider. According to the Louisiana Department of Health, ...