Tag: General Assembly
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Bills to preserve Kynect and Medicaid expansion head for votes in Democratic House despite a likely death in Republican Senate
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Bills to continue the Kynect health-insurance exchange and the state’s current expansion of the federal-state Medicaid program passed out of the House Health and...
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Patients may be liable for big bills from air ambulances; state House panel approves bill calling for study of companies’ charges
Air ambulance services have enabled rural Kentuckians to get advanced emergency care more quickly, but there’s a catch. “Increasingly, the service also can mean the difference between getting well at...
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Hard-fought bill to protect independent pharmacies passes Senate committee; would regulate pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Update March 28: SB 117 passed the Senate March 14 with a 38-0 vote and passed the House March 25 with a 97-0 vote....
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Bevin administration will still have state health-insurance exchange but use federal exchange for enrollment; cost debated
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Republican Gov. Matt Bevin appears to have found a way to abolish the Kynect health-insurance exchange without chasing away insurance companies...
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Bills to preserve Kynect and Medicaid expansion are going nowhere, put prompt a lively debate among legislators on KET
Democratic state Rep. Darryl Owens of Louisville has filed bills to keep Gov. Matt Bevin from keepimng his campaign promises to dismantle the Kynect health-insurance exchange and scale back the...
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Study finds Medicaid managed care works, even with expansion; providers still struggle with it, prompting legislation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After an additional 400,000 Kentuckians signed up for Medicaid under health reform in 2014, it wasn’t certain that the Medicaid managed-care system started in...
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Medicaid is in a bigger hole than she expected, Glisson says
Kentucky’s Medicaid program is $124 million over budget and faces a $611 million deficit over the next two years due to its expansion under federal health reform, the impending end...
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Health-committee leaders say policy decisions being driven by focus on pensions, with no consideration of tax reform for revenue
L-R: State Reps. Joni Jenkins, Rep. Tom Burch,Sens. Ralph Alvarado, Sen. Julie Raque Adams By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Four legislators told a group of health advocates Feb. 22 that...
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Female legislator files bill to put restrictions on erectile-dysfunction medications to make a point about men pushing abortion bills
Rep. Mary Lou Marzian Fed up with a string of anti-abortion bills backed by religious conservatives, Democratic state Rep. Mary Lou Marzian of Louisville has filed a bill that would...