Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Legislation to fix surprise medical billing won’t apply to ground ambulances, but may produce data that will spur their inclusion
The congressional fix for surprise medical bills, contained in the legislation to keep the government open, provide pandemic relief and do many other things, does not apply to ground ambulances, which...
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More Ky. hospitals got As on safety-grade report; most still get Cs
Screenshot of Laepfrog page for Whitesburg ARH Hospital, which got a C, shows detail for infection issues and tabs for other issues. For a larger version of the image, click on...
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Beshear announces most Covid-19 deaths yet in one day, 54; hospitalizations and ventilator use are also at all-time highs
White House Coronavirus Task Force table; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state announced more deaths, by far, from Covid-19 on...
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7-day average of new virus cases drops again, but ICUs have more patients than ever, and 23 more are dead from Covid-19
Kentucky Health News graph; new-case numbers are unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky’s seven-day average of new coronavirus cases fell for the fifth...
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Plain talk’s understood: ‘Snot and spit … spread infection,’ health chief says as he advises us to ‘hunker down’ during the holidays
White House task force graph shows national numbers; Kentucky’s trends have been similar. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Coronavirus cases in Kentucky appear to have plateaued, but infection...
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Public-health officials and workers are ‘a public punching bag’ in a politicized pandemic; 1 in 10 in Ky. have left since it began
Kaiser Health News map; to enlarge, click on it. —– Local public-health officials and workers “have found themselves at the center of a political storm as they combat the worst pandemic...
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Negotiators reach compromise on surprise medical billing, but fate of the legislation may rest with Senate Majority Leader McConnell
Health insurance companies “are furiously lobbying Congress to tweak a last-minute deal on protecting Americans from surprise medical bills — one that is viewed as favoring doctors over them,” The Washington...
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Eastern Ky.’s lost generation and echoes that remain: Aftermath of the opioid epidemic, by an expatriate doctor who lost a friend
By Brian S. Barnett, M.D. Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Published in JAMA Internal Medicine My friend drew his last breath alone, in the predawn...
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Work on successful lawsuit against changes in Medicaid earns Rich Seckel a Kentucky Healthy Policy Champion award
Rich Seckel —– The point man in a lawsuit that blocked changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program has been honored for his work by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Rich Seckel,...
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Director of UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health named Kentucky Health Policy Champion for her work in rural health care
Fran Feltner —– Fran Feltner, director of the University of Kentucky‘s Center for Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, has been named a Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for her “trailblazing” work to improve...