Tag: health insurance
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Kentucky Health Cooperative, largest private provider on state insurance exchange, gets $65 million loan to keep going
The Kentucky Health Cooperative, a non-profit, consumer-governed health insurance company, received a $65 million federal loan last month to keep it afloat just days before the second open-enrollment period began,...
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Tennessee’s Republican governor will use Obamacare Medicaid money to expand coverage
One of the longest and starkest boundaries in health care for the last year has been the border of Kentucky and Tennessee, because the Bluegrass State expanded Medicaid under the...
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Dec. 15 is deadline for Jan. 1 Kynect coverage; final deadline in second open enrollment is Feb. 15
Kentuckians can sign up for coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through Kynect, Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, through Feb. 15. But to be covered on Jan. 1, you...
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If you have a Kynect policy, or are buying one, shop around to get the best deal; prices and tax credits change each year
Obamacare customers in Kentucky probably need to shop around the Kynect health insurance marketplace if they want to get a better deal this year. “More than 70 percent of people...
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Kynect policyholders get premium notices, are urged to check website to see if a better deal is available
The 80,000-plus Kentuckians who bought private health insurance during the first open enrollment period under the federal health-reform law are getting letters notifying them of their new premium and subsidy...
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Carrie Banahan, director of Kynect, is named one of Governing magazine’s nine Public Officials of the Year
Carrie Banahan, executive director of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, has been selected by Governing magazine as one of nine 2014 Public Officials of the Year. The magazine, for state...
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Medicaid expansion has been more popular than expected, but that raises a question of whether it will really pay for itself
Kentucky officials say the state’s Medicaid expansion under the federal health-reform law has enrolled more residents and created more jobs than expected, but a study will see whether the expansion...
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Reform law’s backers say it boosts economy by freeing ‘job lock;’ foes cite estimate that it will make some drop out of job market
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s second enrollment period gets underway, supporters of the law say it boosts the economy by creating an affordable, accessible insurance market that’s...
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Hospitals, plagued by bad debt, ask or even require patients with high-deductible insurance plans to pay in advance
Irene Qdemat of Baptist Health enterspatient data. (C-J photo by Alton Strupp) Kentucky hospitals are so plagued by bad debts that they are asking some patients to pay in advance,...
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Kynect enrollment for private, subsidized insurance reopens; previous enrollees should check website and re-enroll
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s second annual open enrollment period has started and brings with it many changes. Kentuckians can use Kynect,...