Tag: doctors
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UK HealthCare offers help to primary-care clinics; university’s top health official calls it ‘a game changer’ for rural health providers
The Kentucky Primary Care Association and the University of Kentucky have announced a new partnership to provide support services to primary care providers throughout Kentucky. This “groundbreaking partnership” will provide KPCA,...
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How has the federal health-reform law changed your care?
Despite the controversy that continues to surround the Patient Protection and Affordable Act five years after its passage, it has probably changed the way your health care is delivered as...
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Community health groups, with focus on prevention, fight to be part of new setup for lowering health costs, improving outcomes
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is forcing doctors and hospitals to collaborate on lowering health-care costs while improving health outcomes. Community health groups that focus on preventive care...
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Bardstown hospital sponsors monthly ‘Walk With a Doc’
Here’s an interesting idea to promote physical activity and maybe even health literacy: take a walk with your doctor. Flaget Memorial Hospital in Bardstown hosts monthly “Walk With a Doc” events...
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State Senate passes bill for independent appeals process for managed-care claims; hearing gets into details of the problem
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Managed-care organizations’ contracts allow them to deny Medicaid claims and not reimburse for services if they deem them not medically necessary. That means health-care...
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Senate OKs bill for review panels in medical lawsuits after lively debate between doctors, lawyers, others
This story, which was published Thursday morning, has been updated with action in the full Senate. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Senate has approved a...
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Medicare starts to overhaul the way it pays providers, rewarding them for quality, penalizing them for shortcomings
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration on Monday set a timeline for historic changes in how it pays doctors, hospitals and other health providers under Medicare, shifting...
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U.S. study finds Medicaid patients may have hard time finding doctor; half not taking new patients or not at given location
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky and other states under federal health reform has provided more people than ever with health coverage, but finding...
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St. Joseph London, doctors and others win the first of a dozen trials over allegations of unnecessary procedures at hospital
A jury has decided for the St. Joseph London hospital, several of its doctors and other defendants in a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring “to perform unnecessary, risky and...
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Conference focuses attention on importance of patient- and family-centered care, health education, communication
Health education, communicating with physicians, and patient- and family-centered care that empowers patients to be their own best health advocates, were some of the topics discussed at the Health Watch...