Author: amy_wilson
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Franklin County health department lays off 5; blames Medicaid managed health claim denials for budget shortfalls
The Franklin County Health Department has laid off five employees effective today, four of those are part-time workers. The layoffs are being made in the midst of a $1.7 million...
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Study: Smoke-free workplace leads to fewer heart attacks
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a 33 percent drop in heart attack rates in a Minnesota county after public smoking bans were enacted. This, while rates of hypertension, diabetes, high...
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Passport Health claims state violated bidding process and will make Medicaid overpayments in Jefferson County as a result
Passport Health Plan has charged that the state of Kentucky has violated its own bidding process and will spend as much as $80 million more than necessary per year under...
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Baptist Health buys Trover Health in Western Kentucky, making Baptist Kentucky’s largest health-care provider by licensed beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to...
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Women who smoke triple their risk of dying early, but quitting early enough might just wipe out that risk
A new study of more than a million women found that smokers have more than triple the risk of early death than nonsmokers, and that quitting can virtually eliminate the...
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Here are the seven factors driving health care cost increases
Escalating health care costs are everybody’s problem and no one entity’s fault. Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News reports that the United States spends about18 percent of its gross domestic...
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Kentucky to get $811,000 from drug company as settlement of federal suit alleging unfounded promotion of three medications
Attorney General Jack Conway has confirmed that the state will receive almost $811,000 for its share of recoveries in a settlement reached in a lawsuit filed by the federal government...
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Anthem funds program to fight childhood obesity in Louisville area
A $35,000 Anthem Foundation grant to the American Academy of Pediatrics will allow a program that fights childhood obesity in Louisville and northern Kentucky counties to continue, reports Darla Carter of...
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Democratic ads accuse Republicans of supporting pill mills by voting against bill that all agree needs work
A bipartisan group of Kentucky lawmakers are looking ahead to fixing the much complained about “unintended consequences” of last spring’s hastily passed bill aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse. Still,...
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Statewide trauma system established; called ‘most significant advancement in health of Kentuckians for the last 20 years’
Dr. Andrew Bernard, chair, State Trauma Advisory Committee Ten Kentucky hospitals have been recognized as part of the state’s first official statewide trauma system. The announcement came during the 2012...