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LSU Health Shreveport Responds to Medicaid Cuts

By: Marquel Sennet
Updated: July 19, 2012
Medicaid cuts could have a direct impact on health care right in your own backyard.  Nearly $317 million in cuts will fall on LSU's public health care system.

Over the next week LSU Health Shreveport administration will be meeting with campus and system officials to consider the implications from the cuts. 

They say they're still waiting to learn more details.  Once they receive more information they will determine the next steps to address the reduction plan.

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