US EditionLouisiana Hospitals Press Johnson over Megabill Medicaid Cut Proposals
- On June 30, Congress considers the largest Medicaid cut in Louisiana history as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
- Driven by federal budget pressures, proposed Medicaid cuts threaten service reductions, hospital closures, and risking billions in economic activity across Louisiana's rural communities.
- Analysis shows Senate provisions would eliminate over $4 billion annually in Medicaid funding for Louisiana hospitals, which generate $38.4 billion in business and $14.2 billion in payroll.
- Proposed Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospital services and strain Louisiana’s state budget amid the largest healthcare reduction in the state's history.
- Louisiana leaders have approved a fully supporting state budget and resolutions urging federal policymakers to prevent Medicaid funding reductions, emphasizing the importance of healthcare access.
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Growing concerns in Louisiana over potential Medicaid, Medicare cuts
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — With federal lawmakers weighing cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, health care leaders in Louisiana are sounding the alarm, warning that reductions in funding could devastate access to care for hundreds of thousands of residents. “We have serious concerns about not only the impact on patients in our community health centers, but the impacts in our state,” said Raegan A. Carter, director of health policy and gover…
LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP: Proposed federal Medicaid cuts and their impacts on rural communities discussed
WILKES-BARRE — Shapiro Administration officials joined rural health leaders at Wayne Memorial Hospital to express concerns about the devastating effects of the proposed cuts on rural Pennsylvanians and health care providers.
Louisiana Hospitals Predict ‘Devastation’
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation,” Politico reports.
A $1 Trillion Medicaid Cut Is THIS Close to Happening. Here’s What It’d Look Like.
(Shutterstock)Salisbury, North CarolinaENID RODRIGUEZ KNOWS WHAT A DIFFERENCE Medicaid can make, because it’s made a huge difference for her.Rodriguez, 51, has been working for pretty much her entire life—first in organizations that provided support and therapy to at-risk children, more recently in a small electrical business she helps her husband run while she also takes care of her aging mother. She loved working with children and now is inves…
Louisiana hospitals press Johnson over megabill Medicaid cut proposals
As the “big, beautiful bill” teeters towards passage in the Senate, every major health system in Louisiana sent a letter Saturday to the state’s entire congressional delegation, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R), warning that planned cuts to Medicaid would be “historic in their devastation.” The letter said that the Senate’s version of the bill would…
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