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24 memos on the Louisiana Medicaid market, energy and regulatory dockets, AI infrastructure, and the sessions that shape our clients' industries.
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CMS has approved Louisiana's Section 1115 reentry demonstration, which lets Medicaid pay for up to 60 days of care before release from state prisons and up to 13 par…
OCTOBER 14, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Three of Louisiana's neighbors have named 443 awards worth $506.5 million in federal Rural Health Transformation Program funds. Alabama and Arkansas have now committ…
OCTOBER 1, 2026 · Stephen Wright
The Federal Highway Administration opened the final funded round of the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program today: about $80 million for projects that cut collisions be…
SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 · Stephen Wright
USDA's new Powering Affordable Reliable Technology (PART) Program offers $410 million in partially forgivable loans, from $1 million to $100 million each, for new bi…
SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Late September in Louisiana still brings near-record highs and heat indices above 105. Here are the warning signs pediatricians and dermatologists want families to k…
SEPTEMBER 21, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Louisiana will pay four private Medicaid plans $16.1 billion in 2027 to absorb the members of two departing insurers, pending JLCB approval next month. CMS also adde…
SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 · Stephen Wright
SpaceX's $100 billion Starbase Louisiana will draw suppliers, power developers, compute tenants, life-sciences firms and builders to the state. Louisiana's tax incen…
SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 · Stephen Wright
LDH's Informational Bulletin 26-12 moves more than 290,000 Healthy Blue members to four remaining Medicaid plans on January 1, 2027. The exit is the headline. The de…
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Mississippi's second competitive round of opioid settlement grants opens August 31 and closes October 5 — with an outside firm scoring against a published 100-point …
AUGUST 31, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Five Louisiana regulatory actions this August — from an $18 billion data-center buildout to a reversed foster-care reimbursement cut — share one trait: each is being…
AUGUST 24, 2026 · Stephen Wright
The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget reviewed the state's five-year baseline on August 13. Buried in the projection: LDH's state general fund need grows by …
AUGUST 14, 2026 · Stephen Wright
CMS's new toolkit documents Medicaid autism-therapy spending outpacing the population it serves, with $198.4 million in improper payments already found nationwide. L…
AUGUST 14, 2026 · Stephen Wright
What HRSA's January 2027 rebate model pilot start actually means for physicians and every covered entity type on the Gulf Coast — beyond the trade-association fight.…
AUGUST 4, 2026 · Stephen Wright
Reimbursement rates are up, facility-need protections are in place, and the field just marked a season of recognition — but parity enforcement is stalling nationally…
JULY 28, 2026 · Stephen Wright
A session that opened with more than 20 AI bills in play closed with almost all of them stalled, parked, or quietly withdrawn. Here’s what passed, what didn’t, and t…
JULY 7, 2026 · Stephen Wright
The Legislature closed its 2026 session with a $53.4 billion state budget — a second consecutive standstill spending plan passed with no new taxes. Here is what chan…
JUNE 18, 2026 · Stephen Wright
A recurring executive brief on the state-level moves shaping AI infrastructure and healthcare AI across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas.…
FEBRUARY 20, 2026 · Stephen Wright
A federal Inflation Reduction Act provision penalizing small-molecule drug development threatens Louisiana's life-sciences sector — and the state's ability to lead t…
DECEMBER 21, 2024 · Stephen Wright
Why Louisiana Cannot Build Its Way Past a Broken Transmission Queue…
JULY 14, 2022 · Stephen Wright
What Louisiana's 2019 Net-Metering Rule Reveals About the Cost of Utility Capture…
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 · Stephen Wright
Building a Solar Siting Framework Louisiana's Landowners Can Trust…
AUGUST 13, 2021 · Stephen Wright
Dual-use agri-solar frameworks let Louisiana preserve agricultural heritage while unlocking utility-scale energy infrastructure on the same acreage.…
JULY 1, 2021 · Stephen Wright
Overreaching solar decommissioning bills threatened to drive commercial investment out of Louisiana. Direct advocacy at the State Capitol secured amendments that pro…
MAY 28, 2021 · Stephen Wright
A comprehensive 1012 Industry Report shows Louisiana's legacy industrial assets are perfectly suited for modern energy manufacturing — driven by market demand, not l…
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