Day: October 2, 2013
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Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct. 1, and regardless of where you stand on the...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state’s new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky’s network of...
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Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care’s next era; session to be videostreamed
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum “Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Care’s Next Era—90 Days Out” tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. Eastern...
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Leaders in Medicaid, public health and advocacy entering UK College of Public Health Hall of Fame
The father of Kentucky’s Medicaid program, the co-author of a popular smoking-cessation program and a leading advocate for mental health and the disabled will join the University of Kentucky College of...
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Diabetics have increased risk of complications from flu
Certain groups of people, including diabetics, are at risk of serious flu complications each year, according to a report from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. More than 500,000 Kentuckians, over...