Skip to main content

Federal Medicaid agency: Louisiana audit ‘deeply troubling’

BATON ROUGE (AP) — The federal Medicaid agency described a November audit that said Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion program may have spent as much as $85 million on ineligible enrollees as “deeply troubling” and said it could seek repayment of misspent money.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it will include Louisiana in a future review of how “high risk states” determine elig…

PO Box 910 | 238 Market Street | Jennings, LA 70546 | 337.824.3011
PRINT ISSN 3069-4949
ONLINE ISSN 3069-4957