Tag: managed care
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Bill would require Medicaid managed-care firms to pay contracted fees for ER visits; Senate hearing targets two companies
This story has been updated with comments from Wellcare of Kentucky. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Managed care is touted as a way to achieve value-based...
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Clinton, Beshear, Humana chief and others discuss Medicaid expansion, other changes in health systems, and chronic illness
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The economic advantages from expanding Medicaid under federal health reform should outweigh any ideology that is holding states back from participating...
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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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Millions of children on Medicaid are missing free check-ups; Kentucky is a little below the national average
Millions of low-income children across the country aren’t getting free preventive exams and screenings guaranteed by Medicaid, and some experts say federal and state health officials aren’t doing enough to...
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Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to ‘bake in’ health reform, managed care, more
This is the last in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. By...
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Daytime mental-health programs shrink, citing problems with managed-care Medicaid; pastoral counselors to be licensed
Access to daytime mental-health care “is on a steep decline in Kentucky, leaving what some fear is a gap in care that isolates the mentally ill at home or drives...
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As Edelen begins hearings on rural hospitals’ finances, state gives figures on Medicaid expansion and reimbursement
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The expansion of the federal-state Medicaid program funneled $284 million to Kentucky health-care providers in the first quarter of the year, the state Cabinet...
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WellCare of Kentucky removes co-pays for most Medicaid members and offers to pay for GED course for many
WellCare Health Plans Inc. is improving its Medicaid benefits in Kentucky by removing most members’ co-pays and covering the cost of the General Educational Development test and its corresponding coursework...
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Most Kentucky Medicaid members are allowed to switch managed-care organizations until June 18
Kentucky citizens with traditional Medicaid coverage may switch to a different managed-care organization (MCO) until June 18, Kentucky Voices for Health Board Chair Sheila Schuster notes in a press release....