Month: September 2012
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Kentucky leads nation in drug-fraud prosecutions and settlements
Kentucky leads the U.S. in pursuing pharmaceutical fraud, according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group, Public Citizen. Since 1991, the state has pursued the most claims against pharmaceutical...
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Pill-mill bill causing problems for patients who have long-term prescriptions: expensive drug-screening tests
In July, Kentucky started making long-time holders of certain controlled-substances prescriptions submit to urine tests to determine if they were actually taking the drugs, rather than selling them. Because insurance companies...
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Health reform’s exchange won’t attract many new insurers to Ky. because it’s a small, sickly state, former Medicaid boss says
Kentucky is unlikely to attract many new insurance companies when it starts its Health Benefits Exchange a year from now, a former state Medicaid commissioner told Dawn Marie Yankeelov for...
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Health Benefit Exchange advisory board forms panels to help draft application Kentuckians will use to obtain health insurance
At its first meeting yesterday, the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Board created committees: Behavioral Health, Dental/Vision, Education/Outreach, Navigator/Agent, Qualified Health Plans and Small Business, reports Jodi Mitchell of Kentucky...
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Federal official and expert on integrating physical and behavioral health services will speak in Louisville Wednesday morning
The integration of physical health and behavioral health services, one of the hottest topics in health care, will be the topic of a Health Enterprises Network forum in Louisville Wednesday,...
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Mayfield named state’s top doctor, as head of health department
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Dr. Stephanie Mayfield has been appointed as the commissioner for the state Department for Public Health, making her the first woman and first African American to hold the...
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Obesity alert study: Portion size labels can be deliberately confusing and consumers are easily, even willingly, fooled
Yikes! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the “large” soda you order today is about six times as large as the one you ordered 60 years ago....
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Tenn. study suggests rural residents have as much access to care as anyone, if they’re insured and don’t mind the drive
A health-care study in Tennessee, which started with the premise that people in rural areas have less access to care than urban dwellers, ended with a rather surprising conclusion: They...
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Kentucky doctor honored for her work in bolstering health and preventing deaths of babies born a few weeks early
A Kentucky neonatalogist was honored this week for giving the state “a role in catalyzing a national movement around healthier babies.” Ruth Ann Shepherd, M.D., division director for maternal and...
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Kentucky has the nation’s third highest rate of cardiac disease. Learn more, Sept. 29 is World Heart Day
September 29 is World Heart Day, and, according to the most recent edition of the United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, Kentucky has the third highest percentage of adults with...