Author: tara_kaprowy
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Baptist-Trover hospital merger another example of trend
Though the proposed merger of Saint Joseph Health System, University Hospital and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare has grabbed recent headlines, another merger is under way, with Baptist Healthcare...
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Move to managed care involves a steep learning curve, patients and providers tell Noelle Hunter of The Morehead News
Patients and providers are “ascending a steep learning curve as they implement Medicaid managed care,” reports Noelle Hunter in a two-part series in The Morehead News. Even for a proactive...
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Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day; 1.2 million Americans are thought to be infected, but only 1 in 5 know it
Friday is World AIDS Day, an opportunity to learn the facts about the virus and show support for people living with it. In the United States, there are 1.2 million...
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Poll finds Kentucky has the highest smoking rate in the country; a statewide ban would reduce it, advocates say
Kentucky has the highest smoking rate in the country, with 29 percent of people surveyed by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index answering “yes” to the question, “Do you smoke?” (United Press...
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Abuse must be reported to officials in Ky., unlike scandalized Pa.
State law should prevent the child abuse scandal that has rocked Penn State from happening in Kentucky. (Associated Press photo: Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, assistant coach Mike McQueary...
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Pat Boone commercial about Medicare has many inaccuracies
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at...
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Kentucky second highest in antibiotic consumption in U.S.
The next time you ask your doctor for an antibiotic, or if he or she offers to give you one, think again. It might do your health no good, but...
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Retailers like Walmart, CVS getting into primary care, eyeing the prize that awaits if health reform takes effect in 2014
Last week, a document leaked showing Walmart‘s intention to become the country’s largest provider of primary health services, but the company’s interest is not unique. Drug retailers like CVS Caremark...
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Even the experts seem to have more questions than answers when it comes to the federal health-care reform law
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. — Confusion, primary care doctors overwhelmed by an influx of new patients, and employers opting to pay fines rather than health insurance are...
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Independent pharmacists say managed care costs them money
Because two of the three new Medicaid managed-care companies have slashed the dispensing fee they will pay them, independent pharmacists are in danger of going out of business all over...