Day: October 27, 2011
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What would solve primary-care crisis, create jobs and help banks? Building community health centers, writer contends
The federal health-care reform law will mean a glut of new patients who will be newly insured and bog down the primary-care system. Thousands of construction workers are out of...
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Boys should get HPV vaccine to keep from spreading virus
A federal committee has recommended that boys receive the human papilloma virus vaccine, already recommended for girls, to fight the sexually transmitted virus that is known to cause cervical cancer....
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PIkeville Medical Center agrees to pay $36,000 to settle claim that it improperly billed Medicare
Pikeville Medical Center has agreed to pay more than $36,000, but does not have to admit any wrongdoing, to settle a lawsuit that accused it of improperly billing Medicare. The...
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Jury tells nursing home to pay $1 million to former resident
A Fayette County jury has decided that Lexington’s Cambridge Place Nursing Home will have to pay more than $1 million in damages to a former resident who fell and was...