Tag: Cabinet for Health and Family Services
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Beshear to have outside panel review cases of children killed or life-threatened by abuse
An independent panel of experts will review cases of children who have been killed or severely hurt by child abuse or neglect, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Monday. The panel will have...
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Cabinet for Health and Family Services held in contempt over Medicaid services for Eastern Kentuckians
Hazard Appalachian Regional Medical Center, one ofeight ARH hospitals. Courier-Journal photo, copyright 2000 For taking “practically no steps to a comply” to a request to help thousands of patients transfer...
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New Kentucky Medicaid commissioner appointed
In the face of serious turmoil caused by the move to managed care for Kentucky’s poor and disabled, a new Medicaid commissioner has been appointed. Lawrence Kissner starts his new...
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Beshear says he will create state health insurance exchange if federal health reform law is upheld
Gov. Steve Beshear said today that he will wait on creating a health insurance exchange under federal health reform until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the...
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Beshear names Audrey Haynes secretary of embattled Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Audrey Tayse Haynes, who is a social worker by training but knows her way around politics, government and the nonprofit world, will be the new secretary of the state Cabinet for...