Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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State sets rates for federally subsidized health insurance
The state Department of Insurance has approved the 2019 rates for federally subsidized health-insurance plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, setting a slightly higher average rate for the...
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Oct. 4 Health Watch USA conference in Lexington will focus on health-care transparency and patient safety
Somerset-based Health Watch USA will hold its 12th annual Healthcare Transparency and Patient Safety conference Oct. 4 in Lexington. This year’s conference will look at the importance of nursing in...
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Ky. reviewing how to regulate short-term health policies that aren’t so short any more; health expert advises to read the fine print
A 43-year-old woman went on a search for a short-term health insurance plan in Louisville that would cost less than an Obamacare exchange plan and found one for $393 a...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky report documents its change from a small philanthropy to ‘an influential statewide advocate’
Under new leadership, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky “led or funded work to change dozens of state and local laws and policies in 2017 to help make Kentuckians healthier,” including...
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Dan Martin, rural health champion in Western Kentucky, dies at 92
Dr. Dan Martin, a leader in rural health for Western Kentucky, died Aug. 14 at the age of 92. The Harvard Medical School graduate moved to Madisonville in 1965, where...
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International visitors, potential leaders in their countries, visit Rural and Underserved Health Research Center at UK
Front row, from left: Chanchamnap Sok, Cambodia; Dr. Asma Hamid, Algeria; Dr. Mangu Kendino, Papua New Guinea; Suzette Adel Maher Faragallah, Egypt; Mariana Bezugla, Ukraine. Back row: Dr. Richard Ingram, assistant professor of...
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Telling doctors about their patients who die of overdoses makes some reduce their prescribing of opioids
Telling doctors that their patients have died from drug overdoses reduce the physicans’ prescribing of opioids, the San Diego County medical examiner’s office in California found when it sent such...
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UK HealthCare again named best Ky. hospital in U.S. News & World Report rankings; report has overview of most Ky. hospitals
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Six Kentucky hospitals have been named among then 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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Nominations are sought by Sept. 7 for award recognizing lifetime contributions to rural health in Kentucky
Since 2003, the Kentucky Rural Health Association has awarded an individual with an award for their lifetime contributions to rural health in Kentucky. The award is named for its first recipient, Dr....
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UK Markey Cancer Center named national cancer center for 5 more years; director pledges to halve Ky.’s cancer rate in 10
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky leads the nation in the percentage of residents who get cancer and those who die from it, and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center is...