Healthcare

The Baton Rouge Fire Department is launching an online registry allowing residents and business owners within the city limits to share important information about their homes or businesses with firefighters.

The former director of Pennington Biomedical Research Center and his wife have pledged $1 million to create an endowed fund to support the center’s postdoctoral fellows in basic research, as well as in clinical and public health and population science. 

Autumn Lake LLC is relocating its headquarters to an office on Superior Drive between South Sherwood Forest Boulevard and BREC's Parklawn Park.

Baton Rouge collections firm Transfinancial Companies LLC is partnering with an AI provider to...

Amedisys, a publicly traded home health and hospice care provider headquartered in Baton Rouge, announced a merger agreement with a larger company last month.  Today, a cash acquisition offer was made public that initially appears to be a better deal for shareholders. But as the board evaluates the new proposal, could more suitors be readying a bid? 

Just over a month after announcing a pending merger agreement, Amedisys has received a competing buyout offer that might be a better deal for shareholders. 

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is expected to pay federally mandated rebates to some groups and individuals this year.

Louisiana Ear, Nose, Throat & Sinus, or LENTS, has been acquired by private equity-backed firm Elevate ENT Partners, the companies announced today.

At a time when an increasing number of insurance providers across the country are covering fertility treatments, Louisiana lawmakers could soon require private health insurance plans to cover fertility preservation for people undergoing medical treatments for cancer.

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge participated in a major federally funded study of long COVID, which refers to symptoms and conditions that continue or develop after an initial COVID-19 infection.