Healthcare

Employers across the nation are bracing for what is expected to be the largest...

Louisiana legislators want the state to revisit—or at least delay—the award of a Medicaid technology contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars after hearing complaints from one company not selected to do the work. 

The Louisiana State Medical Society currently expects to vote “no” on the proposed plan to convert Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana into a stock insurance company as part of the potential sale to Elevance Health, the society’s president says in a letter to state Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon. 

The Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Gonzales has begun using a new radiation treatment system as the local cancer market continues to evolve. 

Woman’s Hospital will open Louisiana’s first inpatient mental health unit dedicated to serving pregnant and postpartum women, hospital officials announced this morning. 

While Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana covers some 1.9 million Louisiana residents, only about 92,000 will get to vote on the potential sale of the company to Elevance Health.

Over the past year, LSU has expanded its online education curriculum as it enters a new partnership with a California-based company to train a workforce for the burgeoning cannabis industry. 

With COVID-19 cases rising once again, it may be time to revisit your pandemic-era return-to-office plans, Inc. reports. 

The National Institutes of Health is awarding the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (LA CaTS) a $1.3 million grant to create a network of data warehouses that will allow all Louisiana healthcare institutions to share research data, according to an announcement from Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Inflation may be slowing across the U.S. but health care prices are continuing to...