Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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$80,000 donation wipes out $8 million in medical debt
Hundreds of people in Appalachia, most of them in Eastern Kentucky, have had $8 million in medical debts paid off by a nonprofit organization that uses donations to buy “bundles...
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UK HealthCare again named best Kentucky hospital in U.S. News & World Report rankings; Baptist Health has three of six on list
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Six Kentucky hospitals have been named among the nation’s “Best Regional Hospitals” in the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report magazine. They are, in order: the University...
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Michael Rust retires as head of Kentucky Hospital Association; Nancy Galvagni was appointed new president and CEO in May
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Michael T. Rust, who led the Kentucky Hospital Association for 24 years, has retired. Rust said it was a privilege to have worked for the KHA...
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Jewish Hospital quits heart transplants; U of L says there’s less need for them, and can’t start a program of its own right now
Jewish Hospital is in downtown Louisville. —– Financially ailing Jewish Hospital, which was once a national leader in heart transplants but has done only one this year, says it is putting...
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Opioid distribution database shows Ky. was 2nd for most legal pain pills per person between 2006-12; county-level data available
Washington Post map; click here to view the interactive version. —– Between 2006 and 2012, drug companies distributed 76 billion doses of prescription pain medicine, “enough pills to supply every adult and...
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900 participants in study aimed at eliminating hepatitis C in Perry County will get their meds through a device that tracks adherence
Participants in a University of Kentucky study aimed at eliminating the liver disease hepatitis C in one county will get their medicine in a device that tracks how closely they follow their...
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As Jewish Hospital struggles, so does its organ-transplant program, with bad implications for U of L and regional health care
Insider Louisville chart —– “Jewish Hospital’s pioneering transplant program is in trouble, and its demise could produce far-reaching repercussions” on the greater Louisville area, reports Boris Ladwig of Insider Louisville. “Surgical teams have...
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Registration open for free, day-long forum Sept. 23 on public-health policy considerations regarding medical marjuana
Photo from MedicalMarijuana.com —– Registration is now open for a statewide forum on medical marijuana to be held September 23 in Lexington. The forum is not intended to change minds...
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After appeals-court arguments in case challenging Obamacare, Beshear calls it ‘the future of rural health care’
“A panel of federal appeals court judges on Tuesday sounded likely to uphold a lower-court ruling that a central provision of the Affordable Care Act — the requirement that most...
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Plan to change how some rural hospitals are paid would hike pay to 39 in Ky., totaling $4 million a year, hospital association says
Table from Kentucky Hospital Association letter endorsing changes in the Medicare wage index. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A Trump administration plan to change the way Medicare pays hospitals,...