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64K deemed ineligible stay on La. Medicaid because of virus

by Associated Press
| May 13, 2020 11:27 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is keeping 64,000 people in the Medicaid program who otherwise would have been kicked off the rolls, because of a federal aid requirement enacted for the coronavirus pandemic.

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