Louisiana’s health department didn’t violate a doctor’s constitutional rights by ending his Medicaid provider agreement after a federal grand jury indicted him for health-care fraud, a federal court said.

The doctor, Shiva Akula, had no property or liberty interest in his status as a Medicaid provider that was protected by the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana said. The court dismissed Akula’s complaint.

Additionally, a Louisiana law that allows the state’s health secretary to immediately end a provider agreement without written notice if a provider is involved in a criminal, civil, ...

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