Category: FEATURED
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Health insurers again win lobbying battle with doctors and hospitals over prior authorization of procedures, treatments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to exempt health-care providers who have 90% or more of their claims approved from health-insurance companies’ requirements for prior authorization of ceratin...
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Emergency-department visits and hospitalizations for respiratory illness keep dropping; at ‘moderate’ level for first time since fall
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the first time since December, the state Department for Public Health says both respiratory-virus activity and hospital admissions related to respiratory disease are moderate...
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State Senate weakens bill to curb underage vaping and sends it to the House with just days left in the legislative session
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill set up a regulatory framework to curb underage vaping passed out of the Senate on Thursday, March 21, but hasn’t yet been...
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‘Momnibus’ bill nears passage with change to require hospitals, birthing centers and midwives to offer perinatal palliative care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-approved bill aimed at reducing maternal-mortality rates in Kentucky was approved without dissent by the Senate Health Services Committee on March 22 and...
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Bill to let pharmacists give vaccines to children 5 and older heads to governor’s desk; 11 Senate Republicans vote against it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to allow Kentucky pharmacists to order and administer vaccinations to children down to the age of 5 has gained final passage, but...
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Appeals court upholds proposed warning labels for cigarette packs, but sends case back down to decide a procedural issue
By Kevin McGill Associated Press A federal rule to require cigarette packs and advertising to include graphic illustrations that demonstrate the effects of smoking — including pictures of smoke-damaged lungs and...
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Bill targeting certificate-of-need process for health-care facilities gets only three votes in House Health Services Committee
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A bill that opponents said would effectively repeal Kentucky’s certificate-of-need law for health-care facilities failed in a strong bipartisan vote of the House Health Services...
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UK diabetes research featured in group’s annual research report
By Hilary Smith University of Kentucky One of the cover stories in the annual research report from the American Diabetes Association is about a University of Kentucky researcher devoted to...
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UK wants your ticks: dead, dry and properly packaged
By Jordan Strickler University of Kentucky The Kentucky Tick Surveillance Project is now accepting tick-testing submissions from Kentucky residents. This project, produced by the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of...
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Bill to protect independent pharmacies from benefit managers moves after changes; insurers say it would increase premiums
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to set new controls on commercial pharmacy-benefit managers was approved by a Senate committee on March 14 as a measure scheduled to...