Tag: Medicaid
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Impact of Medicaid expansion and Kynect workers are discussed at Friedell Committee for Health’s annual meeting
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medicaid expansion and Kynect, the state’s health insurance exchange, have transformed health care in Kentucky by providing health insurance to an additional 500,000 Kentuckians,...
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Candidates for governor make misstatements and questionable assertions in debate, many about health issues
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Many of the questionable assertions and outright misstatements in Sunday night’s debate for governor were about health care. Here’s a fact check: Bevin said...
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‘Health Gains Campaign’ shows successes of Medicaid expansion as Kentucky Voices for Health plans to deal with a new governor
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky Voices for Health is planning for the future as Kentucky gears up for a new administration by working on what it calls a...
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Fate of health coverage through Medicaid expansion and Kynect insurance exchange could rest on outcome of governor’s race
By Cheyene Miller and Anthony Pendleton University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The fate of health coverage for about half a million Kentuckians could rest on the...
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Medicaid expansion is at stake in the Nov. 3 election for governor; Bevin’s spokeswoman offers a bit more detail of his plans
Kentucky could become the first state to reverse expansion of the Medicaid program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Frankfort correspondent Adam Beam reports for The Associated Press....
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Proposed Medicare premium hike could cost Kentucky a lot, because some on Medicare are also on Medicaid
UPDATE, Nov.2: a two-year budget was passed by Congress Oct. 29 and awaits the signature of the president. The agreement will reduce the increase in Medicare premiums for Part B, which pays for...
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Health Journalism Workshop offers a host of health-care story ideas from officials, health-care providers, journalists
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky journalists were challenged by policy makers, health experts and health journalists to write about Kentucky’s health issues and were presented with many story...
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Beshear: Bevin plan to repeal Medicaid expansion is ‘shortsighted’
Gov. Steve Beshear, in a statement released Tuesday, said Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin’s plan to repeal the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky and his plan to find an alternative...
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Oregon Medicaid will fund alternative treatments for pain in effort to cut opioid abuse; Ky. only pays for a few alternatives
Oregon’s version of Medicaid is getting ready to pay for some alternative treatments to pain pills in hopes of reducing the number of people who become addicted to opioids or...
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Bevin and Conway’s running mate, state Rep. Sannie Overly, show sharp differences on health-care issues at forum
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The major-party campaigns for governor disagree on all of Kentucky’s major health issues, sharply on such topics as the Medicaid expansion, the Kynect health-insurance...