Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Health insurers again win lobbying battle with doctors and hospitals over prior authorization of procedures, treatments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to exempt health-care providers who have 90% or more of their claims approved from health-insurance companies’ requirements for prior authorization of ceratin...
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Appeals court upholds proposed warning labels for cigarette packs, but sends case back down to decide a procedural issue
By Kevin McGill Associated Press A federal rule to require cigarette packs and advertising to include graphic illustrations that demonstrate the effects of smoking — including pictures of smoke-damaged lungs and...
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Bill to protect independent pharmacies from benefit managers moves after changes; insurers say it would increase premiums
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to set new controls on commercial pharmacy-benefit managers was approved by a Senate committee on March 14 as a measure scheduled to...
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U of L’s new hospital in Bullitt County is now open
Kentucky Health News The University of Louisville opened its UofL Health–South Hospital Monday, March 18, with a community breakfast, open house, and a ceremonial ribbon-cutting with Gov. Andy Beshear at...
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Kentucky Children’s Hospital at UK opens center to treat children who are harmed by abuse and neglect, in which Ky. ranks 14th
By Hilary Brown University of Kentucky Representatives from Kentucky Children’s Hospital and the nonprofit foundation Kosair for Kids cut the ribbon recently on the Kosair for Kids Center for Safe &...
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Anthem loses court fight to keep managing Medicaid for 172,000
Kentucky Health News Anthem Kentucky has failed in its attempt to remain as the manager of Medicaid coverage for about 170,000 Kentuckians, because the Kentucky Supreme Court deadlocked on the insurance...
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Baptist settles dispute with Humana but not United and WellCare
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Baptist Health and Humana have ended a months-long standoff over Kentuckians with health coverage through Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance plans, the companies said Thursday,...
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Contrary to Trump’s musings, McConnell says efforts to repeal the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are ‘largely over’
Obamacare, now into its second decade, is pretty much here to stay. So says Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, contradicting former President Trump’s comments that he is still...
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Bill aimed at curbing Kentucky’s youth ‘vaping epidemic’ passes House; Ky. Youth Advocates calls on Senate to make it stronger
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to curb what its sponsor called the youth “vaping epidemic” in Kentucky passed the state House on Monday and is now in...
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State and federal lawmakers say they’re still trying to rein in health-insurance middlemen, called pharmacy-benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A day after Gov. Andy Beshear talked at a White House roundtable about Kentucky’s moving to one pharmacy-benefit manager for Medicaid, First District U.S....