The Redstick Clinic

It’s National School-Based Health Care Awareness Month!🩺💛

Meet the incredible Rapides School-Based Nurse Practitioners who show up every day to keep our students healthy, supported, and ready to learn 📚✨

From sick visits to wellness checks, they’re making a difference across Rapides Parish, one student at a time. 💪🏽

Thank you for all you do! 👏

🔗 Learn more: winnchc.org/our-locations/rapides-sbhcs

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If you have a United Healthcare Medicaid, and we are your P*P, you are being assigned a different insurance company.

Very important!!!! If you are assigned to a different provider, please call the customer service number and let them know that you want to remain a patient of The Redstick Clinic.

(We have not gotten any information from the state, yet, so we are not in a position to answer any questions about which insurance company you will be assigned to or whether you will be able to change companies.)

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.