Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Perseverance is often needed to set up syringe exchanges, since local politicians have the say-so, and it’s a local election year
It took two years, but Campbell and Kenton counties will finally launch their syringe exchange programs the week of July 23. The new mobile exchanges will be run by the Northern...
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Groups that blocked Medicaid plan ask feds to restore related dental, vision cuts; cabinet addresses service-denial claims
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three advocacy groups have asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reject recent changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program that took dental, vision and non-emergency...
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Patients confused, providers worried, Democrats and advocates upset over decision to limit Medicaid dental and vision benefits
The end of dental and vision benefits for 460,000 Kentuckians on Medicaid caused some pregnant women and children to be denied care because of a reported glitch in the system....
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Blocked from starting new Medicaid plan, state comes up with a question-and-answer sheet to help providers and their patients
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the Cabinet for Health and Family Services scrambles to deal with the fall-out from a court ruling that vacated the state’s new Medicaid plan, which was set...
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460,000 Kentuckians on expanded Medicaid have lost their dental and vision benefits; officials blame judge’s ruling against new plan
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News One of the major objections to Gov. Matt Bevin’s changes in Medicaid was that people who are covered by the program’s...
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Federal judge blocks new Medicaid plan, which was to go into effect Sunday
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A federal judge has blocked Kentucky’s new Medicaid plan, which was to go into effect Sunday, July 1. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of...
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Adam Meier, the state’s new health secretary, has moved from creating policy to delivering it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state’s new health secretary moved from a policy job that he loved to one that puts him squarely into a position of delivering...
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Feds charge 10, mainly in Louisville, with various health-care fraud schemes, call them ‘drug dealers in lab coats’
A doctor, a psychiatrist, a chiropractor, a medical assistant and six other people in Louisville and Cave City have been indicted as part of a federal crackdown on health-care fraud...
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Health secretary says some benefits will likely be cut if Medicaid changes are ruled illegal; three counties to start a month early
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s new Medicaid plan is set to kick in July 1, but the state’s top health official said some of the program’s benefits could...
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Fewer Ky. teens smoke, but the rate is still high, and new vaping products like the Juul create worry that this trend will reverse
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s high-school students continue to smoke at higher rates than their national counterparts, but the good news is that their rates continue to drop....