Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Beshear ends non-essential retail, elective medical procedures; calls out violators, including a church; Sen. Paul has the virus
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Sunday, March 22, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear said...
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Bill to help independent pharmacies goes to the governor
Sen. Max Wise presented SB 50 on Feb. 20 in the Senate. (Legislative Research Commission photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to resolve payment issues between Kentucky...
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Beshear asks schools to shut until April 20, warns about all gatherings, business practices; testing expands; more needed
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. —– Saturday, March 21, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear,...
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Rural hospitals seek help in covid-19 response legislation, which is blocked by Democrats, who say it’s too friendly to corporations
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is urging its members to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, their senior U.S. senator, to include help for rural hospitals in the third coronavirus package being...
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Beshear says he will close restaurants and bars; pleads against runs on stores; CDC advises against gatherings of 50+
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Four more Kentucky cases...
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TVs in public places need closed captioning turned on, especially during breaking news, to help the deaf or hard of hearing
Virginia Moore is the sign-language interpreter at Gov. Andy Beshear’s coronavirus press conferences. (WKRC image) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the nearly 700,000 Kentuckians who are deaf or...
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Senate bill to address surprise medical billing now in House
By Jim Hannah Legislative Research Commission FRANKFORT, Ky. – Legislation to offer patients some protection from surprise medical bills passed the state Senate Friday. “There are many factors that contribute...
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Opioid epidemic keeps shadowing Ky. policy, as Senate removes opioids from list of drugs physician assistants could prescribe
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House bill to let physician assistants prescribe some highly regulated drugs is moving through the Senate, but without application to some highly addictive...
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Committee approves doctors’ bill to regulate lawyers’ ads aimed at soliciting clients who take certain prescription drugs
Sen. Ralph Alvarado explained SB 178 to the Economic Development, Tourism and Labor Committee. (LRC photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to regulate plaintiff-lawyer commercials that solicit...
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Is our political system properly serving our public-health system?
The president and vice president watched Dr. Anthony Fauci Feb. 29. (Photo: Andrew Harnik, Associated Press) —– By F. Douglas Scutchfield and Al Cross The new viral disease, Covid-19, began in...