Tag: health care law
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Kentucky AG challenges Biden’s minimum staffing rule for nursing homes
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentucky is joining 19 other states in challenging a Biden administration rule that sets minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. The nursing home industry has...
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Analysis of Ind. Medicaid plan, Bevin model, shows same concern about financial hardship voiced by Ky. critics; Ind. officials reply
Gov. Matt Bevin By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News While Republican Gov. Matt Bevin works on his proposal to reform his Democratic predecessor’s expansion of Medicaid, the Indiana program that...
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Issues between managed care companies and Kentucky Medicaid providers still mar the state’s implementation of the program
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News For many health care providers in the state, implementation of Kentucky’s Medicaid Managed Care system has been taxing, but Cabinet for Health and Family...
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Supreme Court upholds Obamacare subsides in all states; ruling has no direct effect on Kentucky, but focuses political debate
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the tax subsidies provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are legal in every state....
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Kentucky does well in national comparison of premiums and tax credits in new health-insurance system
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health-insurance costs vary from region to region and state to state, and federal subsidies won’t remove all of the differences, Christopher Snowbeck...
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Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana, one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state’s insurance exchange, will allow Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverage for another year without charging them...
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Most Kentucky hospitals will pay Medicare penalties under health reform, one the country’s largest; look them up here
More Kentucky hospitals are receiving penalties than bonuses in the second year of Medicare’s quality incentive programs, one of the federal health reform law’s changes designed to create financial rewards...
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Ky.’s successful rollout of health-insurance exchange prompts New York Times to profile Beshear as ‘a man on a mission’
A weekend article in The New York Times describes Gov. Steve Beshear as a man determined to prove that the health-reform law works, and says Kentucky stands out in many ways...
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Obamacare hearing highlights employers’ worry and uncertainty; Yarmuth says repeal and defunding bids block needed changes
Three of Kentucky’s congressmen agreement at a field hearing in Lexington Tuesday that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act needs changing, but had no a consensus on how it should be...
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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,...