Tag: health care access
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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...
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If Republican governors are agreeing to expand Medicaid after lobbying by hospitals, can Beshear be far behind?
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s surprising announcement that he would use federal health-care reform money to expand the Medicaid program to households earning up to...
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Herald-Leader says state running out of time to fix Medicaid managed care, with decision on expansion looming
A recent editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader called for swift legislative action to fix the problems of Medicaid managed care. Timely action is even more necessary since the state is considering expanding the program,...
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Frontier Nursing University in Hyden helps bring better family health care to rural America with distance learning
Midwives and nurse practitioners who recently graduated from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden address the unique challenges of rural areas, including shortages of health care providers, by bringing local health care to...
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28% of Ky. adults 18-64 say they lack health coverage; 41% lacked it sometime in last year; employer coverage down since ’08
Nearly three in 10 working-age adults in Kentucky are not covered by any form of health insurance, and the number who get health insurance from their employer, or their spouse’s...
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Beshear will expand Medicaid, Democrat and Republican say; D says governor believes the state can opt out if it’s not affordable
State legislators in both parties say they expect Gov. Steve Beshear to expand Medicaid to cover several hundred thousand more Kentuckians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal...
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Kasich of Ohio is fifth Republican governor to accept Medicaid expansion; he and others cite need to protect rural hospitals, poor
Several Republican governors have decided to expand Medicaid under federal health-care reform, saying their conservative principles were outweighed by a need to protect their state’s rural hospitals and low-income people. Yesterday, the...