Healthcare - Baton Rouge Business Report

🔒 How AI is impacting care

Artificial Intelligence-powered software has quickly become mainstream as leaders across many industries weigh the...

🔒 10 years later: Was the OLOL/LSU partnership worth it?

In April 2013, Baton Rouge’s health care landscape underwent a dramatic transformation when Our...

🔒 2024 Trends in Health Care: The evolution and innovation that’s redefining the industry

In Business Report's latest Trends in Health Care edition, we explore the dynamic evolution...

🔒 Metairie-based depression treatment clinic expands into Baton Rouge

NeuroJust, a Metairie-based clinic specializing in the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat...

🔒 BROC merges with Lafayette-based clinic

Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic and Lafayette-based Louisiana Orthopaedic Specialists have announced they are combining...

🔒 Patient Plus is expanding with two new locations

Baton Rouge-based Patient Plus Urgent Care is expanding outside of the Capital Region with a new location in Hammond.

🔒 Here’s why the tech industry isn’t likely to turn US health care upside down

At first glance, it looks like the U.S. health care industry is prime for...

🔒 Woman’s Hospital issued permit for construction of perinatal mental health unit

Contractors were granted permits last week to begin construction of Woman’s Hospital’s planned perinatal mental health unit, which would become the first inpatient mental health unit in Louisiana to focus solely on the needs of pregnant and postpartum women.

🔒 What the insurance commissioner is saying in wake of Blue Cross’ announcement

In a newly released statement, Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple praised his department’s transparency in working with stakeholders of the proposed acquisition of Blue and Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana by Indiana-based Elevance Health.

🔒 What’s next for Blue Cross now that it has withdrawn its planned sale to Elevance?

On the eve of its scheduled public hearing, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana informed Louisiana officials it was withdrawing its plan of reorganization and sale—again.