Tag: Medicaid
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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...
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Republicans want Medicaid members to pay something
As state officials reviewed changes in the five Kentucky Medicaid managed-care organization contracts that went into effect July 1, one Republican lawmaker said the contracts don’t go far enough and...
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Bevin letter says he will repeal Medicaid expansion; spokeswoman says he will find another solution
A mid-August fund-raising letter from gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin says he would “repeal” the state’s Medicaid expansion if elected, returning him to essentially the same stand he took early this year....
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Kentucky had the largest decrease, from 2013 to 2014, in percentage of residents without health insurance
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky led the nation in the largest drop in the percentage of residents without health insurance from 2013 to 2014, according to a report...