Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Fifth annual Viral Hepatitis Conference in Lexington July 31
Kentucky will hold its fifth annual viral hepatitis conference, “Kentucky’s Hepatitis Epidemic: The Role of Professionals in Hepatitis Elimination” July 31 in Lexington, three days after World Hepatitis Day. The...
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Resurrecting old model for individual health-insurance market may limit who gets covered and how well, columnist says
Editor’s note: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has been one of the leading advocates of association health plans. By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service A new health...
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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...