Louisiana Health Cooperative Inc., a new non-profit insurance company that received a $65 million federal loan last fall, received a license from the state Department of Insurance this week, according to a news release.

​State employees covered by the Office of Group Benefits will see a 1.77 percent reduction in monthly premiums for coverage under OGB’s self-insured health plans, Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols said Friday.

​This afternoon Interim DHH Secretary Kathy Kliebert issued a statement taking issue with a Legislative Fiscal Office analysis of Medicaid expansion in Louisiana. Despite a recent DHH report that admitted there could be some cost savings from Medicaid expansion, DHH has not wavered from the anti-expansion stance taken by Governor Jindal.