Tag: health insurance
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Kentuckians who work for small employers in the state aren’t likely to be offered health insurance; most large employers do
Most of Kentucky’s small employers don’t offer health insurance, while almost all of the state’s larger employers do, according to the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Percentage of Kentucky private-sector...
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Feds allow Bevin to dismantle Kynect and use federal exchange, but express concerns echoed by health-reform advocates
It’s official. Kentuckians will sign up for health insurance on HealthCare.gov instead of Kynect during this year’s open enrollment, which begins Nov. 1. But there are questions about how smooth...
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Baptist Health Plan will no longer sell individual health plans in Kentucky; about 7,000 people will be affected
Baptist Health Plan is withdrawing from the individual health insurance market in Kentucky for 2017, according to a state Department of Insurance news release. Baptist is the state’s fourth largest...
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Anthem Blue Cross touts its program to help curb opioid abuse, limiting high-risk members to one pharmacy
The opioid epidemic seems to be focused on heroin, but that’s only part of the picture, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield President Deb Moessner writes in an op-ed for...
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Passport Health Plan named Kentucky’s top Medicaid plan by National Committee for Quality Assurance; others rate lower
Passport Health Plan has again been named the top Medicaid plan in Kentucky, getting a 4 rating on the 5-point scale of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The NCQA...
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Study finds Kentucky hospitals had 77% less charity care in first two years of Obamacare; ER visits were about the same
An ongoing report of federal health reform’s effect on Kentucky says hospitals have significantly less charity care and care to the uninsured than they did before the reform was implemented....
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Health-insurance premiums for 2017 will be more expensive
By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service Recently I got a note from a reader of these columns who lives in Warren, Ohio. He had seen conflicting reports about next...
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American Medical Association says Humana takeover by Aetna would reduce health-insurance competition in Kentucky
Humana Inc.‘s proposed takeover by Aetna Inc. would hurt health-insurance competition in 57 metropolitan areas in 15 states, especially Kentucky and Georgia, says an analysis by the American Medical Association....
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Health advocacy group that opposes new Medicaid proposal to hold eight community forums across the state to discuss it
This story was updated on 9/23/16. Kentucky Voices for Health will host eight community forums across the state to discuss Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program...
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Kentucky’s uninsured rate drops to 6 percent; states that expanded Medicaid, like Kentucky, saw the greatest drops
The share of Kentuckians without health insurance dropped by more than half from 2013 to 2015, bringing it down to only 6 percent of the state’s population, from 14.3 percent, according...