Month: November 2011
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Retailers like Walmart, CVS getting into primary care, eyeing the prize that awaits if health reform takes effect in 2014
Last week, a document leaked showing Walmart‘s intention to become the country’s largest provider of primary health services, but the company’s interest is not unique. Drug retailers like CVS Caremark...
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Even the experts seem to have more questions than answers when it comes to the federal health-care reform law
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. — Confusion, primary care doctors overwhelmed by an influx of new patients, and employers opting to pay fines rather than health insurance are...
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Independent pharmacists say managed care costs them money
Because two of the three new Medicaid managed-care companies have slashed the dispensing fee they will pay them, independent pharmacists are in danger of going out of business all over...
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FDA finds more than 1,000 retailers selling tobacco products to minors, several in Kentucky
More than 1,200 retailers, including CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid, were issued warning letters by the Food and Drug Administration this year for illegally selling cigarettes to minors. FDA inspectors...
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‘Pill mills’ proliferating in Ky.; legislators plan countermeasures
Suspected “pill mills” that feed Kentucky’s “epidemic of prescription-drug abuse” have proliferated in the last two years, and “not just in Eastern Kentucky, where the problem was once most prominent,”...
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Center for Excellence in Rural Health marks 20th anniversary by adding new program in medical lab science
The University of Kentucky’s Center for Excellence in Rural Health celebrated its 20th anniversary this week and announced the addition of a new baccalaureate degree in medical laboratory science, which...
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Race for city commission seat puts an end to debate over city’s smoking ban, advocate and opponent agree
The Bowling Green City Commission candidate who said he wanted to rewrite the city’s smoking ban ran last in the five-way race for an unexpired term on the commission Tuesday,...
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Nursing-home violations went up in third quarter, but a record 8 facilities had no deficiencies
In the third quarter of 2011, inspectors found 403 deficiencies in 56 Kentucky nursing homes, an average of 7.2, up from 5.9 in the second quarter. But no deficiencies were...
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Kentucky Youth Advocates gets $100,000 to push for income-tax policies aimed at helping the poor improve their health
Kentucky Youth Advocates is one of 12 coalitions nationwide to receive a “Roadmaps to Health” grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The non-profit children’s advocacy organization will receive $100,000...
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Merger would give Jewish and St. Mary’s $83 million for their assets, which would have to be used for charitable causes
If the much-debated merger between Saint Joseph Health System, University Hospital and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare overcomes legal obstacles, it could result in a $83 million payment for...