Tag: hospitals
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State tells Coventry Cares to keep covering ARH patients; managed-care firm says it will drop Ashland hospital
The state has ordered Medicaid managed-care firm Coventry Cares to keep paying for its members to be treated at Appalachian Regional Healthcare hospitals for at least 30 days, rather than...
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare asks federal judge to make managed-care firm keep it under contract
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a hospital chain in Eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, is seeking an emergency injunction by a federal judge ordering Coventry Cares to let its Kentucky members...
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Appalachian hospital chain, facing loss of 25,000 Medicaid patients, sues managed-care firms and state
“Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the largest health care system in Eastern Kentucky, has filed lawsuits against two of the state’s Medicaid managed care companies, alleging that the managed care companies had...
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Hospitals get antsy about leasing space to fast-food chains
McDonald’s has space in the Cleveland Clinic. (AP photo) While the U.S. Department of Agriculture decides what to suggest about junk food in schools, hospitals are likewise at a crossroads,...
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University of Louisville delays choosing hospital partner
To allow time for more “discussions and negotiations,” the University of Louisville has put off deciding on University Hospital‘s new health-care partner until the end of June. It is not...
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Norton and UK HealthCare formalize the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will “focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in...
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Knox County Hospital bounces employees’ checks; blames old, bad debt and late Medicaid payments
Debt inherited from previous management and late Medicaid payments caused some Knox County Hospital checks to bounce. Most of the facility’s employees could not cash their checks last Friday afternoon. “It was...
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Kentucky hospitals say they gave back $1.67 billion to their communities in 2010, mostly by absorbing losses and bad debts
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News With the downturn in the economy part of the reason, Kentucky’s hospitals say they gave back a whopping $1.67 billion to their communities in...
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Expect more hospital mergers across the country, some with unlikely partners, Moody’s Investors Service report predicts
Reflecting several hospital mergers that have already taken place in Kentucky, a new report from Moody’s Investors Service predicts hospitals will continue to band together across the country as they respond...
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ER at Louisville’s University Hospital says it is pushed to brink; many other hospitals seeing more emergency patients
Louisville’s University Hospital is straining to meet the vastly increased demand of patients coming to the emergency room. Last year, there were 58,010 visits to the ER to the facility,...