Tag: health insurance
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Chart shows how to get coverage under federal health reform
The core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is helping people get health insurance, beginning next year. That will be relatively simple for some people, but complicated for...
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Feds tell states it’s all or nothing on Medicaid expansion; Washington Post map shows Ky. is only state ‘leaning’ toward it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above...
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Republican legislators keep hammering state officials and managed-care companies about Medicaid payment delays
Republican lawmakers reitarated this week that the companies managing Medcaid in Kentucky are still not paying health providers promptly. According to Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, in the year since the...
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Haynes: Medicaid case managers threatened, and more bumps ahead, but state beginning to see advantages of new system
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some Medicaid case managers’ lives have been threatened because they have tried to get Medicaid patients to go to primary-care doctors instead of emergency...
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N. Ky. Chamber to ask state for more funding to fight heroin; London police make first known heroin trafficking arrests there
The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is planning to lobby the state for more funding for heroin treatment after receiving reports from business and law enforcement about the breadth and...
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Expanding Medicaid in Kentucky would add 5 percent to the state’s cost over the next 10 years, national study predicts
Expanding Medicaid to people making up to 138 percent of the poverty level under federal health reform and its heavy subsidies would cost Kentucky about 5 percent more for Medicaid...
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U.S. preterm birth rate goes down but Kentucky’s maternal smoking rate still second highest, putting preterm babies at risk
For the fifth year in a row, the preterm birth rate in the United States has dropped. Which is great news. But Kentucky again had a significantly high smoking rate...
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National Rural Health Day to be celebrated Nov. 15 with free week-long issue-based webinar series
Those almost 60 million Americans who live in rural America do not have as much ready access to health care or to the vast number of health care providers than...
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Here are the seven factors driving health care cost increases
Escalating health care costs are everybody’s problem and no one entity’s fault. Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News reports that the United States spends about18 percent of its gross domestic...
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Anthem funds program to fight childhood obesity in Louisville area
A $35,000 Anthem Foundation grant to the American Academy of Pediatrics will allow a program that fights childhood obesity in Louisville and northern Kentucky counties to continue, reports Darla Carter of...