Tag: health care access
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Report shows race and ethnicity matter when it comes to health
When it comes to health, your race and ethnicity matter, says a recent Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky report. A study of federal and state polling data found that multiracial...
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Bevin submits formal Medicaid proposal to federal government, largely unchanged from his draft; negotiations come next
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration formally submitted its revised Medicaid plan to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Aug. 24, leaving largely unchanged...
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Bevin joins lawsuit that targets federal transgender rule, saying it will force health-care providers to provide ‘controversial services’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin has joined a lawsuit that challenges a federal rule guaranteeing transgender people equal treatment by insurers and medical providers. “Not only...
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Philosophical divide evident at Medicaid oversight meeting; Bevin officials say revised plan will be sent to feds ‘shortly’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Gov. Matt Bevin prepared to ask federal officials to let him change the state’s Medicaid program, a discussion at a legislative committee meeting...
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Kentucky leads the nation in cancer deaths, but falls short on policies to prevent cancer, especially when it comes to tobacco
Kentucky ranks first in deaths from cancer and has for several years, but falls short in its fight against cancer when it comes to supporting policies and passing legislation to...
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Survey of low-income Kentuckians, Arkansans suggests expansion of eligibility for Medicaid is making them healthier
A survey of people in Kentucky and other states suggests that the 2014 expansion of the Medicaid program under federal health reform is making them healthier. The telephone survey of...
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Kentuckians have an extra week to comment on proposed changes to Medicaid; new deadline 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14
State officials have given Kentuckians an extra week to comment on Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program. The new deadline for comments is Sunday, Aug. 14,...
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Many Kentuckians have hepatitis C and don’t know it, but die from it; if you were born in 1945-65 you should get tested for it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has the highest rate of hepatitis C infection in the nation, and many who have it don’t know they are infected and could...
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UK gets $2.8 million grant for Rural Health Research Center; will study health-care access in poor, rural U.S., including Appalachia
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky has received a $2.8 million competitive grant to establish a Rural Health Research Center that will focus on access to...
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Health insurers get almost all of the rate hikes they requested for plans on exchange; some get more than they asked for
The state Department of Insurance has largely approved the rate increases that health-insurance companies requested for individual and small-group plans that will be sold through the federal health-insurance exchange for...