Day: October 10, 2023
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Health insurers, drug companies and other middlemen account for 45% of America’s huge health-care bill, up from 25% in 2013
Kentucky Health News Americans spend $4.3 trillion a year looking after their health. That is 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product, “twice as much as the average in other...
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UK gets $19 million to study tobacco-product markets and possible additional federal regulation of them in Kentucky
Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky is one of seven institutions that are getting about $20 million each in federal money over the next four years to examine the...
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Baptist Health, out of Humana Medicare Advantage network since Sept. 22, is now in a similar dispute with insurer United Healthcare
Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest hospital chain, is at odds with another major health insurer over payments for patients covered by its Medicare Advantage and group retiree plans. “United Healthcare, the...
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Scorecard for long-term care services and supports puts Ky. 42nd
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The American Association of Retired Persons‘ latest Long-term Services and Supports Scorecard, three years after the Covid-19 pandemic, ranks Kentucky 42nd in the nation....