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New oral-health plan includes expanded role for hygienists, soft-drink tax to fund loans to get more dentists in under-served areas
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s new plan for oral health calls for the state to expand the role of public-health hygienists, find other ways to expand the dental...
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Justice Department sends Ky. another prosecutor to fight fentanyl, orders charges to be brought regardless of quantity
Kentucky is one of the states that will get an extra federal prosecutor to fight the spread of fentanyl, a powerful opioid blamed for an increasing number of overdoses. As...
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Attorney General Andy Beshear sues another drug company, accusing it of worsening Kentucky’s opioid epidemic
Attorney General Andy Beshear filed suit July 12 against Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, charging the firm with knowingly misrepresenting the addictive nature of its drugs. The lawsuit in Madison Circuit Court alleges that the company...
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Lexington restaurant gives people with addictions second chance
A Lexington restaurant was recently profiled in The New York Times for its efforts in giving people in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction a second chance. DV8 Kitchen opened last September and...
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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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State fines Caremark, top pharmacy benefit manager, $1.5 million for violations including ‘inaccurate and inconsistent’ information
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department of Insurance has issued a $1.5 million fine to a subsidiary of CVS Caremark — a pharmacy benefit manager for all but one of 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....