Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Ambulances report fewer overdose calls, say trend is partly due to availability of drug antidote Narcan and increased use of meth
Your local ambulances may be getting fewer calls for drug overdoses, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that your local drug problems are decreasing. The Anderson News found that OD ambulance calls...
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Managed-care firms and legislators do another ‘Groundhog Day,’ but changes might be coming; Passport objects to recent cuts
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Medicaid managed care organizations and others in the health-insurance industry spent the first half of a three-hour meeting bragging about their...
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KentuckyOne Health in Central and Eastern Kentucky reverts name to Saint Joseph and adds ‘CHI’ to reflect parent firm
The brand was removed from University of Louisville Hospital last year, and will be removed from other facilities in the city once they are sold or closed. (Image from WDRB-TV) —...
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Counties where drug makers did more marketing had higher rates of overdoses from prescription painkillers, national study finds
Counties where doctors got more attention and favors from drug manufacturers were more likely to have a higher rate of overdoses from prescription opioids a year later, says a new...
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University of Louisville in talks with Nashville hospital firm to partner in buying, perhaps saving Jewish Hospital and its affiliates
The University of Louisville is talking with a Nashville health-care firm to “prevent a catastrophic health-care shakeup in Louisville,” the closure of Jewish Hospital, reports Louisville’s WDRB-TV. The potential deal is “offering a new survival scenario...
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Chain that robbed Fulton of its hospital continues to abandon small towns, says it’s no longer a rural hospital company
Parkway Regional Hospital before it closed in 2015 — In politics, if you want to know where things are coming from and where they are headed, one maxim is to...
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Man who got rich recovering part of plaintiffs’ awards for hospitals has given $3 million to Baptist Health La Grange
A man who became wealthy getting money for hospitals from people who won large legal settlements after running up big health-care bills has made his second large gift to his...
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Poll shows plurality in Kentucky still favor Obamacare; Chandler says numbers suggest opinion of law has settled in state
Kentuckians remain divided about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but for the second straight year more of them clearly favor it than oppose it, according to the latest...
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U of L looking for a partner to help it rescue Jewish Hospital
The University of Louisville is looking for a partner with which to buy Jewish Hospital, Boris Ladwig reports for Insider Louisville. “In an email obtained by Insider, University Hospital CEO and University Medical Center...
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Most on Medicaid will have co-payments starting Jan. 1; foes say it’s a barrier to care, proponents say it improves engagement
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsStarting Jan. 1, most adult Medicaid beneficiaries in Kentucky will be required to make co-payments for many of their health-care services, a rule change that prompted...