A state audit finds that the Louisiana Department of Health is not calculating Medicaid rates for nursing facilities accurately. Louisiana Legislative Office Director of Performance Audits Karen LeBlanc says they discovered 19.7 million dollars the state could have saved this past year which was spent on patients not covered by Medicaid…
Medicaid payments to the 260 private nursing home facilities in Louisiana reached one-billion-dollars last year.
Holiday shopping is expected to increase in Louisiana. That’s the view of LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice who says households have largely recovered from the 2016 floods and the state’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since 2008…
State Police plans to focus on impaired driving and occupant protection this Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. Emelie Gunn has more…