Day: January 20, 2021
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Hospitals agree to follow higher quality standards to get more money from Medicaid, which covers 1/3 of state’s population
Friedlander and interpreter Virginia Moore announced the new hospital payment program. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With up to 28 rural Kentucky hospitals vulnerable to closure if their financial situation...
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New-case trend stays down and vaccine pace quickens, but supply is a challenge; Beshear issues vetoes, opens door to talks
Ky. Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear announced 2,250 new cases of the coronavirus...
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Researchers think they have finally found a treatment that works on methamphetamine addiction, but say more research is needed
Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, right, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, led the research. —- Kentucky Health News As methamphetamine causes more addiction and death, treatment specialists have despaired for...