Tag: health care access
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State officials tell health-care providers to meet with managed-care companies to get paid, say new system is improving health
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News At the latest in a series of forums on Medicaid managed care, state officials said the new system has improved the quality...
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Health insurers could exclude one in four Americans from coverage because they don’t have bank accounts
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. graphic A new study says if corrective action isn’t taken, health-insurance companies could exclude 27 percent of qualifying Americans now...
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Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
Routine dental care is essential to overall health, but a new poll shows 1.7 million Kentucky adults do not have dental insurance. That is more than times the number of...
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Business leaders discuss possibility of expanding Medicaid through private insurance
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky business leaders are discussing a possible endorsement of expanding Medicaid through private insurance, in a plan similar to one the federal government...
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Confused or concerned about the impact of health reform on Kentucky businesses? There’s a seminar for that.
To address possible confusion or concern of business people and the public about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” health-care reform experts will address its impact on...
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UK Healthcare says it must get even bigger, and expand its market area, to provide needed services to Kentucky
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky‘s health-care system has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, becoming one of the state’s...
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State Auditor Edelen says state must fix managed-care issues that have put rural hospitals and providers on brink of survival
State Auditor Adam Edelen said last week that shoring up the financial base for rural hospitals in Kentucky is the number one challenge to the state’s Medicaid managed-care system. The...
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Legislature eases physician assistant rules; nurse practitioners’ prescription power, Medicaid prompt-payment bills, others linger
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly has joined other states in easing the restrictions on physician assistants’ medical practice, but has held up...
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Kentucky receives an F grade for its low funding of mental-health services; supply falls short of demand
Kentucky’s supply of mental-health services is much lower than demand for those services, in terms of state funding, and the state spends only 45 percent of the national average in mental-health...
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Medicaid expansion brings primary care access to the forefront
The federal health reform law will usher at least seven million more Americans into Medicaid, and as states like Kentucky debate Medicaid expansion, policymakers are struggling with the question of whether there will...