Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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Judge tells state to keep Anthem in Medicaid managed care, cites role of former Beshear aide working for another successful bidder
A Frankfort judge ordered the state Friday to keep Anthem Inc. as one of its managers of Medicaid, an $8 billion program that pays for health care for one of every three...
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Trustees of state bankers group agree to pay $1.56 million to health benefits trust after federal probe, and are fined $312,363
The Kentucky Bankers Association and current and former trustees of its health and welfare program will pay $1,561,818 in losses to the KBA Benefits Trust, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found they illegally...
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Ky. records 1,346 new cases, the most found in one day; Beshear asks local officials to work on mask compliance and gatherings
Kentucky Health News graph, based on unadjusted initial daily reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear’s hope for a stabilization in coronavirus cases was crushed Wednesday as he...
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More counties will have two insurers to choose from when open enrollment for federally subsidized health plans starts Nov. 1
Kentucky Health News map, based on CareSource information. It will offer all of its 12 health-insurance plans in other counties; Anthem will offer at least one of its 13 plans...
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Group of primary-care clinics in east-central Kentucky picked for national pilot project to improve at-home health care
White House Clinics operates in five counties. —– A group of community health centers in east-central Kentucky will participate a national pilot project to transform at-home health care. The National Association of...
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State gets $82,000 and safeguards in settlement for 2014 data breach at hospitals in Paintsville, Louisa, Jackson and Fulton
The Commonwealth of Kentucky will get $82,345 as part of a nearly $5 million multi-state settlement with Tennessee-based Community Health Systems for a 2014 data-security breach that affected the personal information of...
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Federal guidelines for staff testing in nursing homes change again to account for low numbers of coronavirus tests in rural counties
State health cabinet map; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The federal government has revised its coronavirus staff testing rules for nursing...
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More than 1 in 3 Kentuckians are on Medicaid, after many lost their jobs and the state made enrollment easier due to pandemic
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has added more than 250,000 people to its Medicaid rolls since the coronavirus pandemic came to the state in early March, bringing the...
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Feds give state $7 million to help deal with lingering behavioral-health impacts of 2019 flooding in 21 Eastern Kentucky counties
Grant will help three southeastern regions, highlighted by roughly patterned area. —– Kentucky is getting a $7 million federal grant to expand behavioral-health services in 21 Appalachian counties to help...
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Anthem settles states’ lawsuit over data breach that affected 2.3 million Kentuckians; state will get more than $1.9 million
Kentucky will get $1,929,942 from Anthem Inc. as part of a 43-state settlement for a data security breach that “compromised the personal information of 78.8 million Americans,” said a news release from...