Month: October 2013
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KET program Mon. to answer questions about the Affordable Health Care Act, its impact on state, and obtaining insurance
KET will host a special call-in program to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s enrollment process Monday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The one-hour show will include state...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
As if buying health insurance isn’t confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to beware of scam artists posing as callers claiming...
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New type of artificial knee, designed for individual patients, is being implanted at St. Joseph East in Lexington
Saint Joseph East hospital in Lexington is Kentucky’s first hospital to offer a customized total knee replacement system in which each the knee implant is made to match the individual...
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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...
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State health-insurance website crashes after 24,000 use it; later, officials say almost 78,000 visited it by 7 p.m.
The website of Kynect, the state’s new health-insurance marketplace, crashed at 8:30 a.m. today, because so many people were trying to use it, Gov. Steve Beshear’s office said. Similar problems...
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Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
Attorney General Jack Conway says he wants Purdue Pharma to settle for $100 million or more after it missed a deadline to respond to his arguments in his lawsuit over the...