Attorney general raises concerns about Edwards Medicaid plan

BATON ROUGE- Attorney General Jeff Landry's office is raising "concerns" about whether Gov. John Bel Edwards can legally sidestep lawmakers to enact $15 billion in Louisiana Medicaid contracts through an emergency process.The guidance issued to lawmakers by the GOP attorney general suggests that if the Democratic governor's administration continues services for 1.5 million Medicaid patients by invoking the emergency statute, the contracts could be declared "null and void."The health department