Tag: insurance exchange
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Health-insurance companies ask state for rate increases averaging 17 percent; failure of non-profit insurer blamed
Department of Insurance website Health insurers want rate increases averaging 22.3 percent in 2017 for individual policies in Kentucky. Counting small-group plans, the overall increase would be 17 percent, “continuing...
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Health-insurance stocks fall in reaction to federal judge striking down one Obamacare subsidy; ruling is stayed pending appeal
“Shares of Humana, Aetna and other health insurance companies tumbled on Thursday, as a federal judge ruled that Affordable Care Act subsidies could not be dispensed without congressional approval,” Boris...
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Humana leaving some state health-insurance exchanges to cut its Obamacare losses
Humana Inc. said last week that it may leave some state health-insurance exchanges to cut its losses, and then left two, in Alabama and Virginia. “Humana also continues to reel...
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Feds find security flaws in Kynect; state says no data breaches; problems also found in federal exchange
State health-insurance exchanges in Kentucky, Vermont and California had “significant weaknesses” in protecting their electronic information from hackers, the Government Accountability Office said in a report last month. “These included...
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At top legislative Republican’s invitation, Democrats embrace Obamacare, or at least Kynect and Beshear’s Medicaid expansion
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With a verve for Obamacare most had not publicly demonstrated, state House Democrats passed bills March 22 to preserve the Kynect health insurance exchange...
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Bills to preserve Kynect and Medicaid expansion head for votes in Democratic House despite a likely death in Republican Senate
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Bills to continue the Kynect health-insurance exchange and the state’s current expansion of the federal-state Medicaid program passed out of the House Health and...
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Customers of exchanges such as Kynect are more likely to get prescriptions than other private health-insurance customers
“People enrolled in health plans through the Affordable Care Act exchanges are ramping up their use of prescription medications more rapidly than those in employer or government-sponsored plans, according to...
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Bevin administration will still have state health-insurance exchange but use federal exchange for enrollment; cost debated
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Republican Gov. Matt Bevin appears to have found a way to abolish the Kynect health-insurance exchange without chasing away insurance companies...
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Bills to preserve Kynect and Medicaid expansion are going nowhere, put prompt a lively debate among legislators on KET
Democratic state Rep. Darryl Owens of Louisville has filed bills to keep Gov. Matt Bevin from keepimng his campaign promises to dismantle the Kynect health-insurance exchange and scale back the...
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New Medicaid signup site opens as Kynect starts to wind down
As the new administration of Gov. Matt Bevin continues to move toward dismantling the state’s Kynect health-insurance exchange, it has launched an online portal for Kentuckians to apply for Medicaid...