Tag: health insurance
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Feds reject Ohio’s Medicaid proposal, which was a lot like Ky.’s; federal comment period for Kentucky plan runs through Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rejected Ohio’s new Medicaid plan Friday, saying it could lead to the state’s low-income people losing health...
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Open comment period begins today for Gov. Matt Bevin’s Medicaid request to feds for Medicaid waiver; ends Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have 30 days to let the federal government know what it thinks about Gov. Matt Bevin’s new Medicaid plan, starting today and ending...
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Almost half of Ky. counties will have only one insurer to choose from on government exchange; open enrollment begins Nov. 1
Base chart from Insider Louisville Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky will be the only health insurer offering coverage for next year to Kentuckians on the government exchange in 54 counties. That...
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Giving employees money to spend on local produce could improve their health, lower insurance costs, pilot program shows
Photo: Charles Bertram, Lexington Herald-Leader A pilot program that gave Lexington-area employees money to spend on fresh, local produce boosted their health and local agriculture, Janet Patton reports for the...
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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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Drug prices keep rising, with no end in sight
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Recently a tweet from Lauren Sausser, a fine health reporter I know in South Carolina, caught my eye. “Crazy drug prices became personal....
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Nonprofit groups question Bevin’s plan to require ‘volunteer’ work from able-bodied adults who aren’t primary caregivers
Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to require volunteer work from unemployed, able-bodied Medicaid members isn’t sitting well with the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, which represents nearly 600 of the state’s nonprofit groups,...
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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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Aetna to quit selling Ky. Obamacare policies; affects 10 counties in 3 major metros; may relate to feds’ suit to block Humana deal
Aetna Inc. will stop selling federally subsidized health-insurance policies in Kentucky and 10 other states, remaining only in Virginia, Delaware, Iowa and Nebraska, it said Aug. 15. The company is...
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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...