Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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MedCenter Health, chain based at Bowling Green hospital, to expand medical specialty offices at new building in Glasgow
Kentucky Health News The small hospital chain based in Bowling Green, MedCenter Health, is expanding its medical-specialty offerings in its largest close neighbor, Glasgow. MCH has had a presence in...
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Community pharmacies can help smokers quit, study finds
Kentucky Health News Community pharmacies may play a key role in helping smokers quit, according to a study done in California and published in the peer-reviewed journal Pharmacy. Kentucky’ adult...
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Vape retailers and hemp association file suit to block new law that limits sale of vape products to those approved by the FDA
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Four vape shops, the Kentucky Vaping Retailers Association and the Kentucky Hemp Association have filed suit in Franklin Circuit Court seeking to strike down a...
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Guthrie warns making telehealth expansion permanent must be paid for; costs uncertain, but projected to be several billion dollars
If telehealth services are to remain expanded as they were in the pandemic, Congress must offset the cost, U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green said in opening a House...
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Raising Ky.’s health status has ‘a ways to go,’ hospital chief says; Chandler says people need to demand change in health policies
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A discussion on health care at the April 4 Lexington Forum led to information about the many challenges Kentucky faces when it comes to...
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Legislature, Beshear pass law to protect independent pharmacies in Kentucky from commercial pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to address an unfair playing field between commercial pharmacy-benefit managers and independent pharmacists has been signed into law and will take effect...
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Sports betting has taken off in Kentucky, but counselors for people with a gambling disorder remain in short supply in the state
Legal sports wagering launched in Kentucky in September. Residents can bet online and at brick-and-mortar venues like horse racetrack facilities, no longer needing to cross state lines. Some experts say...
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Anthem is among health insurers now covering anti-obesity drug if it is prescribed to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke
One of Kentucky’s major health insurers is among the first that have “agreed to start paying for the popular anti-obesity drug Wegovy for certain people on Medicare with heart-related conditions,” The...
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Chair of U.S. Senate health committee demands maker of weight-loss drugs, most popular in Kentucky, cut their prices by two-thirds
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who chairs the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee says the maker of two popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy should...
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Government Accountability Office says Medicare and Medicaid each overpaid health-care providers by about $50 billion in 2023
Improper payments, mainly through overpayments, in Medicare and Medicaid are expected to total about $50 billion each for 2023, the federal Government Accountability Office says in its annual report on the...