Louisiana Medicaid Rates: What's Published and Where to Find It

Louisiana’s Medicaid program — branded as Healthy Louisiana — is administered by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), with program and rate information published at ldh.la.gov/medicaid.

What’s currently published

Current published rates tracked by MedicaidBench:

• 90791 (initial psychiatric diagnostic evaluation): $142.09 per encounter
• 90837 (individual psychotherapy, ~60 min): $125.86 per session
• 99213 (established-patient office visit): $77.61 per visit
• 99214 (moderate-complexity office visit): $109.26

Louisiana’s primary care rates (99213/99214) sit closer to the higher end of what MedicaidBench tracks across states, while remaining well below states like Nebraska for the same codes — a useful middle-of-the-pack reference point if you’re benchmarking Gulf South states specifically.

Format and access

Louisiana publishes across multiple program pages rather than a single unified master fee schedule, reflecting the state’s mix of FFS and managed care delivery under Healthy Louisiana. Confirming which page and program applies to a specific billing scenario is a necessary first step before treating any single number as authoritative for your situation.

What to watch for

Given Healthy Louisiana’s significant managed care enrollment, keep in mind that the FFS rates above are a benchmark, not necessarily what a specific MCO pays a contracted provider — the distinction covered in more depth in our FFS vs. MCO explainer.

Keeping current

Louisiana’s rate information being split across several program pages rather than one central file makes systematic tracking harder to do reliably by hand. MedicaidBench monitors Louisiana’s published FFS rates continuously and centralizes them into one normalized view, regardless of which LDH program page a given rate originates from.