Tag: health care
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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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Itchy, watery eyes? Some tips to relieve spring allergy symptoms
The sunshine and bright colors of spring are here, but so are seasonal allergies from pollen, dander, smog or mold that can often lead to itchy, watery eyes. Eye irritation...
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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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Managed care, pension payments causing problems for community mental health centers; Edelen, C-J call for changes
“Kentucky mental health centers are cutting back services and struggling to assist patients the first time they’re admitted because of ongoing struggles with Medicaid managed care,” Don Weber reports for...
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Health departments in N. Ky. and Franklin County are among the first 11 in the nation to be accredited, a milestone in public health
Three Kentucky departments are among the first 11 in the nation to receive accreditation from the national Public Health Accreditation Board, which announced the achievements Thursday. The Franklin County Health Department, the...
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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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Danville newspaper examines problems hospitals and doctors have with state’s managed-care Medicaid program
All the talk about “Obamacare” may have obscured Kentucky’s biggest health-care story, Kendra Peek of The Advocate-Messenger in Danville suggests, in a look at Kentucky’s troublesome shift to managed-care Medicaid....
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Lame-duck Congress could cut funding for critical access hospitals; more than two dozen in Kentucky
Critical access hospitals, which in most states are rural facilities with fewer than 25 beds, may be under attack in the lame-duck session of Congress, former national rural-health director Wayne...