Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Secondhand smoke linked to school absences, ER visits and respiratory symptoms in teenagers; Ky. smoke-free policies lag
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s long been established that exposure to secondhand smoke is harmful to babies and young children. Now a study shows that it’s bad for...
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Kentucky Voices for Health to host webinar on controversial Medicaid plan Aug. 14; not open to news media
Kentucky Voices for Health will host a webinar titled “Kentucky HEALTH: What We’ve Learned and What Comes Next” Tuesday, August 14 at 11 a.m. EST. Kentucky HEALTH, for Helping to Engage...
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Ky. making great strides in treating patients with hepatitis C, with harm-reduction programs and fewer restrictions on treatment
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsEliminating hepatitis C in Kentucky and the rest of the nation will require universal screening and non-restricted access to treatment, and because new cases of the...
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Ky. has two new vaccine requirements this year for students, adding to existing requirements for kindergarten and 6th grade
Going back to school requires more than just making sure you have all the required school supplies; it also means making sure your child is up to date on their...
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State suspends July 1 order that required Medicaid patients in managed care to make co-payments for treatment
Kentucky Medicaid officials have suspended collection of co-payments by patients in managed care, a change they had ordered at the start of July. “The co-pays caught health providers by surprise...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Azar says he learned from lawsuit and ruling on Ky. Medicaid plan, will keep pushing for it
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the Trump administration had learned from the ruling that struck down his approval of work and other “community engagement” requirements...
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Beshear and other Democratic AGs sue to block rule allowing ‘association health plans’ pushed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul
Kentucky’s Andy Beshear is one of 12 Democratic attorneys general suing the federal government over its new rules allowing “association health plans,” a product long advocated by Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul...
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Reports show what adults in five Kentucky regions think about substance abuse, smoking and other issues
The 2017 Kentucky Health Issues Poll found that significantly fewer Kentucky adults are getting prescriptions for pain medication; that they strongly support smoke-free schools; and that most would like to...
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State restores dental, vision and non-emergency transportation benefits for 460,000 people covered by 2014 Medicaid expansion
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News State officials reversed course Thursday and said they would resume paying dental, vision and non-emergency medical transportation costs for 460,000 Kentuckians on expanded Medicaid....
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Feds to reopen Medicaid plan for public comment; state officials say they haven’t decided on appeal of judge’s ruling against it
Federal officials say they will hold another round of public comment on the Kentucky Medicaid plan that was blocked by a federal judge and sent back to them for more...