Healthcare

🔒 Amedisys expands patient services with diagnostics partnership  

Baton Rouge home health care company Amedisys announced last week it is adding advanced...

🔒 What Pennington Biomedical’s $189M diet study hopes to find

A recent Wall Street Journal article highlighted an ambitious nutrition research project currently underway at Pennington Biomedical Research Center and other facilities throughout the U.S.

🔒 Workers want additional mental health training and resources 

Mental health isn't the same kind of taboo topic it was at work in the past, but there's a long way to go until it's ingrained in workplace culture.  

🔒 Blue Cross Blue Shield withdraws its plan of sale, again 

On the eve of its scheduled public hearing, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana...

🔒 Here’s what people are saying about the Blue Cross sale

Public feedback provided to the Department of Insurance prior to Wednesday’s public hearing has been largely critical of the proposed reorganization and sale of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, the state’s largest health insurer. 

🔒 What to know about Gov. Jeff Landry’s first budget proposal 

Gov. Jeff Landry wants to drive a lot of the state’s extra funding into...

🔒 Joint Louisiana Senate committee report raises concerns over Blue Cross sale

A report released today by two Louisiana Senate committees listed 30 findings of concern regarding the proposed reorganization and sale of the state’s largest health insurer. 

🔒 A New Orleans attorney is seeking to block the Blue Cross sale

New Orleans-based attorney Tut Kinney has filed two lawsuits in an effort to effectively block the sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana to Elevance Health.

🔒 New Orleans law office launches campaign against proposed Blue Cross sale

Roughly two weeks away from the Department of Insurance’s public hearing, a New Orleans-based law firm has launched an advertising campaign against the proposed sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, the state’s largest health insurer. 

🔒 Two new senior care centers are planned for the Capital Region

CenterWell Senior Primary Care is planning to open new senior care centers in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas later this year, the company’s first Louisiana facilities.