Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Pineville hospital is cut off by Medicare and Medicaid, which in 2015 accounted for 93% of its patient days; city seeking rescue
A temporary banner, using the typeface of Americore Health, is draped over the sign for Pineville Community Hospital. (Photo by Anthony Cloud, Middlesboro Daily News) —– The federal government has cut...
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Evolent Health to buy 70% of Passport Health Plan; will continue to serve the company’s more than 300,000 Medicaid beneficiaries
Evolent Health, a for-profit national health management company, has agreed to purchase Passport Health Plan, the struggling, nonprofit Medicaid insurer based in Louisville. Evolent, which has provided services and staff to...
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Kentucky Hospital Association asks federal appeals court to uphold state plan for work rules in Medicaid
The Kentucky Hospital Association has filed a formal statement with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit asking it to uphold the state’s proposed work and other “community engagement”...
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Doctors worry FDA can’t ensure quality of foreign generics; 80% of active ingredients in U.S. drugs come from India or China
Adobe illustration adapted by The Boston Globe —– Some U.S. doctors worry that the federal government is not doing a good job of policing generic prescription drugs — which account...
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Kentucky dropped one spot in latest America’s Health Rankings Report for seniors, to 49th; ranked last in health outcomes
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new report shows that Kentucky continues to be one of the worst states in which to grow old, which isn’t great news for...
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Most Ky. hospitals got an average patient safety score, one failed; low scoring hospitals have increased risk of “avoidable death”
The Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade website is easy to use and offers information on 52 Kentucky hospitals. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the second grading period...
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UK College of Public Health researchers start the Journal of Appalachian Health, free to all, free to share
Researchers in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentuckyhave started the Journal of Appalachian Health, an online, peer-reviewed journal, saying their overall objective “is to improve the health status of the...
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Ky., 43 other states sue generic drug makers, alleging price fixing; Beshear sues 3 top insulin manufacturers, making similar claim
Kentucky is among 44 states that filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court in Connecticut, accusing 20 manufacturers of generic drugs of fixing prices and suppressing competition. Meanwhile, Attorney General...
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U of L moving to take over Jewish Hospital
“After trying to sell Jewish Hospital and other local operations for about two years, KentuckyOne Health may finally be close to striking a deal, according to an email obtained by the Courier Journal,” Morgan Watkins reports for...
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Retired Ashland cardiologist gets five years in prison for fraud
Dr. Richard E. Paulus (Ashland Daily Independent file photo) —– A retired Ashland cardiologist has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution after...