Tag: health insurance
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Lexington Herald-Leader says Kentucky Hospital Association report on members’ finances damages the group’s credibility
The Kentucky Hospital Association‘s recent “Code Blue” report on its members’ finances is a symptom of “financial hypochondria,” the Lexington Herald-Leader said in a long editorial Sunday. It said the...
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3,047 got private health insurance in special March-April signup designed to avoid or reduce tax penalty for not being covered
More than 3,000 Kentuckians signed up for health coverage during a special March-April enrollment period that allowed them to avoid or reduce tax penalties for being uninsured. “At the Feb....
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Kynect has an app for smartphones
Kentucky’s state health benefits exchange, Kynect, is offering a free mobile app that will provide “on-the-go” access to the health-insurance marketplace. The smartphone app will allow you to log in...
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Southern Kentucky physician expands his in-school clinics; already in Russell County, will be in Adair County next year
Dr. Eric Loy (Columbia Magazine photo) An entrepreneurial physician in Southern Kentucky has developed a way to deliver school health services that could have a broader impact on communities. Cumberland...
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Kentucky re-bidding Medicaid managed care contracts to address complaints of patients, advocates and health-care providers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State officials are re-bidding Medicaid managed-care contracts that cover more than 1.1 million Kentuckians. The news came as a delight and surprise to many...
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As income taxes are filed, half who got Obamacare subsidy will have to pay part of it back; almost as many will get a refund
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week will go down in history as the first time the Internal Revenue Service enforced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s tax...
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Most Kentuckians don’t think insurance rates should be higher for the obese, but are divided on increasing smokers’ rates
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News By a very small margin, Kentuckians think insurance rates should be higher for smokers if the insurance company provides a free smoking cessation program,...
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Washington Post columnist looks at data, talks to experts and concludes Obamacare is working, at less cost than expected
The federal health-reform law “has accomplished its goal of expanding coverage — at a significantly lower cost than expected,” columnist Ruth Marcus writes for The Washington Post “after talking to...
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Woman needing lung transplant falls through cracks of health-care system, says she’s treated as nothing more than a ‘price tag’
Katie Prager, a 24-year-old cystic fibrosis patient from Ewing in Fleming County, needs a lung transplant, but has been denied one because she has met her lifetime maximum on Medicare,...
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Health reform law has been good for hospital finances, health-care costs, Obama administration says
U.S. hospitals have saved billions of dollars because the federal health-reform law has provided coverage for patients who were once charity cases, the Obama administration announced Monday, the fifth anniversary...