Healthcare

On Jan. 11, 2016, the same day he was sworn into office, John Bel Edwards received his first briefing as governor about a weather-related disaster headed for Louisiana. 

The Louisiana Department of Insurance will host its public hearing regarding the reorganization and sale of the state’s leading health insurer on Valentine’s Day next year. 

Former Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham will lead Louisiana’s Department of Health, Gov.-elect Jeff Landry announced today.   

The first phase of the Sullivan Medical Office Park has been sold to a Minnesota-based health care real estate investment group. 

After skyrocketing in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and then tempering almost as dramatically a year later, health care spending in the U.S. rose just over 4% in 2022, hitting $4.5 trillion, the federal government announced last week.

LSU computer science assistant professor Hao Wang aims to improve the efficacy of federated...

Cigna Group has called off its attempt to combine with Humana, a merger that...

Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have received $13.8 million for...

Cigna and Humana are in talks for a combination that would create a new powerhouse in the health insurance industry, The Wall Street Journal reports.

UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum—which agreed to acquire Baton Rouge’s home health care company Amedisys...