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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Private health-care providers who treat Louisiana’s poor are facing a $180 million cut in the government health insurance program that pays them.
The amount is far less than originally expected. But the cut’s impact will be hard to measure until the state Department of Health
and Hospitals drafts new rules.
Louisiana Hospital Association president John Matessino says his
members want to know the percentage they are going to be cut.
But Matessino said he won’t know until DHH comes up with new
rules that would tell how much private providers would be paid for
the care they render to Medicaid patients.
Some private health-care providers worry that the cuts could
result in private physicians leaving the Medicaid program and
hospitals reducing services and laying off employees.
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