Month: May 2012
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Report looks at ways Kentucky communities are battling obesity
Winchester residents walk the Traveling Trail, a walking path meant to encourage residents to exercise. A new report takes a hard look at obesity in Kentucky and highlights what individual...
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‘Health for a Change’ webinar training series starts May 16, with session on where to find and how to use health data
How to find county-specific health data and how to use it to make community changes will be the focus of an hour-long webinar May 16. The free session is the...
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Cabinet must ‘wield the stick’ to get managed care under control, state auditor says
Though the state has a solid contract “filled with all the mechanisms you need for enforcement, from the carrots to the sticks,” the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has...
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New oral health coalition expected to spur changes in state
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News For the past 30 years, Dr. Fred Howard of Harlan has been seating patients in his blue dental chair and telling them to open...
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Coventry agrees to keep covering ARH patients until June 30
After a two-hour hearing in federal court, managed-care firm CoventryCares agreed yesterday to keep paying Appalachian Regional Healthcare for treating Medicaid patients at its hospitals through at least June 30...
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Nurse anesthetists no longer need to be supervised in Ky.
Kentucky will be the 17th state to opt out of a federal requirement that requires nurse anesthetists to be supervised by a physician, a move that Gov. Steve Beshear said...
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Neat app shows how education, income affect a county’s health
Based on the premise that much of what influences health happens outside the doctor’s office, the 2012 County Health Calculator uses education and income to illustrate how these factors can...
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Beshear says he will create state health insurance exchange if federal health reform law is upheld
Gov. Steve Beshear said today that he will wait on creating a health insurance exchange under federal health reform until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the...
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State tells Coventry Cares to keep covering ARH patients; managed-care firm says it will drop Ashland hospital
The state has ordered Medicaid managed-care firm Coventry Cares to keep paying for its members to be treated at Appalachian Regional Healthcare hospitals for at least 30 days, rather than...
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare asks federal judge to make managed-care firm keep it under contract
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a hospital chain in Eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, is seeking an emergency injunction by a federal judge ordering Coventry Cares to let its Kentucky members...