12/09/2025
This will have a significant impact on services beginning January 1st, 2026.
Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration is abruptly ending contracts with two of the six companies that provide Medicaid insurance in Louisiana, a move that could leave 488,500 residents uncertain of what health care they will have starting Jan. 1.
Seth Gold, Louisiana’s Medicaid director, sent short letters last week to the CEOs of Aetna Better Health of Louisiana and UnitedHealthCare of Louisiana announcing their contract extensions with the state had been dropped for 2026. The Illuminator obtained copies of the letters Monday from the Louisiana Department of Health.
“LDH will begin the transition process of moving your Medicaid members to other contracted Medicaid Managed Care Plans for a Jan. 1 effective date,” Gold wrote in the letters to the companies dated Dec. 2.
Read more at thecurrentla.com/2025/louisiana-drops-medicaid-contracts-with-aetna-unitedhealth/
The news came as a surprise to state lawmakers, who voted less than two weeks ago to extend the state’s agreements with both companies at the urging of the Landry administration.
