Month: June 2012
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To fight meds-for-meth bill, Consumer Healthcare Products Association spent almost $500,000 in last session, a record
The biggest spender to lobby the Kentucky legislature in the 2012 session was the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, which represents the over-the-counter drug industry. Of the $8.8 million spent in...
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Coventry offers to keep paying ARH, but less, for treating Medicaid patients; asks Danville chain to renegotiate
Coventry Cares has offered to pay for treatments at Appalachian Regional Healthcare as a “non-contracted provider,” which would mean ARH would be paid far less than it is now, but...
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Bluegrass mental-health nonprofit flush with cash, despite cuts in public health; spends big on executive pay and lobbying
The new Eastern State Hospital being built in Lexington. The Bluegrass Regional MH-MR Board runs the existing facilityand wants to run the new one. (Pablo Alcla, Herald-Leader) Despite deep cuts in...
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With crackdown on pill abuse, will legitimate patients be able to get the prescriptions they need?
The crackdown on prescription-pill abuse has some patients worried they won’t be able to get the medicine they need because doctors are fearful of over-prescribing. “It’s a huge concern in...
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Couple shares ‘horrible journey’ of prescription drug abuse
Recovering pill addict Stacy Penningtonof Ashland is due to give birth next month.(Courier-Journal photo by Matt Stone) Stacy and James Pennington had to lose everything, including their children and home, before...
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Louisville has highest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in U.S.
Louisville has the largest concentration of nursing-home and extended-care companies in the country. Of the 570,000 people who call Louisville home, 4,000 work in the industry and produce $28 billion...