Day: July 8, 2019
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Plan to change how some rural hospitals are paid would hike pay to 39 in Ky., totaling $4 million a year, hospital association says
Table from Kentucky Hospital Association letter endorsing changes in the Medicare wage index. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A Trump administration plan to change the way Medicare pays hospitals,...
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State could owe 58 hospitals ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ if Ky. Supreme Court lets stand lower-court rulings on Medicaid rates
WCPO.com photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For about nine years, the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services used a formula to reimburse hospitals for Medicaid that two Kentucky...
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Study shows a link between frequent exposure to insecticides and a higher risk of depression and anxiety in Ecuadorian teenagers
Teenagers with frequent exposure to the most widely form of insecticide may have an increased risk of depression, according to a study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental...