Less than five months after announcing plans to end its affiliation with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center announces an agreement to share resources with Baton Rouge General’s Pennington Cancer Center.
The omicron variant, which spreads more rapidly than other COVID-19 variants, has local offices once again updating their pandemic policies as employees return from the holiday break.
Last year, Louisiana was one of the first epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this year, with effective vaccines widely available and the coronavirus seemingly in retreat, life was starting to feel almost normal.
A new law directing health insurance companies, agents and brokers to disclose their commissions goes into effect Monday, though there still is uncertainty about how to comply.