Tag: health care access
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As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As Kentucky expands Medicaid and implements the Affordable Care Act, more Kentuckians will have health coverage and access to care, worsening Kentucky’s already existing...
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Kentucky expands Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth services, but lets managed-care firms keep authority over fees
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Recent changes in Kentucky’s telehealth regulations are making it easier for providers around the state and country to deliver health-care services to Medicaid patients,...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine and infectious-disease specialist in Lexington and the new president of...
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Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states picked for national institute
State Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner is one of seven state program directors to participate in the year-long Medicaid Leadership Institute, which Gov. Steve Beshear said will help Kissner’s ability to...
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Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration’s decision to delay, for a year, the health-reform law’s mandate that employers of more than 50 workers offer them coverage could...
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Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state’s overall well-being ranking has gone up one spot, from 35th to 34th in the nation. But...
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New York Times starts series that will study Affordable Care Act’s implementation and impact in Louisville area
It’s the calm before the health-care storm, and amid the uncertainty of how the health-care reform law will be implemented, health-care conditions in Louisville, Ky., seem to make it a...
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As Medicaid eligibility expands in Kentucky, so will subsidy of undocumented immigrants’ health care
As Washington lawmakers struggle to find consensus on immigration reform, U.S. taxpayers continue to shell out money to subsidize health care for illegal, undocumented immigrants. Those expenses will probably increase,...
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Doctor shortage news: Residencies are filling the pond with primary care doctors, but U.S. and Ky. need an ocean of them
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the country, only 25 percent of newly educated doctors go into this field, and even worse for the mostly-rural Kentucky, less than...
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UK Board of Trustees OKs $31 million plan to outfit another floor of new hospital with eye toward federal certification for heart work
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has given UK HealthCare the green light for its $31 million plan to outfit the eighth floor of Pavilion A at UK Chandler...