Tag: Medicaid
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Legislators wary of commenting on study that says Medicaid expansion will pay for itself by creating jobs and tax revenue
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky legislators reflected mainly partisan attitudes about the state’s implementation of federal health reform in a statewide call-in interview show about the state budget...
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Republicans call for de-funding Planned Parenthood in state; health secretary says that would lead to more teen pregnancies
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin and the state House GOP caucus are calling for de-funding of Planned Parenthood in Kentucky, but Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear...
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State says many screenings of Medicaid patients more than doubled after program was expanded under Obamacare
Countering assertions that Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t guarantee health care, state officials have presented data showing that “Kentuckians on Medicaid were far more likely to get cancer screenings, physicals and...
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Bevin says he wouldn’t end Medicaid expansion immediately but would transition to modified program; Stivers talks similarly
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News LOUISVILLE — Republican Matt Bevin said Tuesday that if elected governor he would not immediately end the state’s expansion of eligibility for the federal-state...
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Bevin won’t say what would happen to 430,000 new Medicaid enrollees if he cancels expansion as planned if elected
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin wouldn’t say Thursday what he would do with the 430,000 Kentuckians who would lose their new...
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Health-care jobs fewer than projected, but health secretary says Medicaid expansion is still on track to pay for itself through 2020
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – The basic financial premise of Kentucky’s expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform is that the addition of so many people...
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Common blood thinner Coumadin is causing deaths and injuries in nursing homes, prompting calls for more regulation
From 2011 to 2014, at least 165 nursing-home residents were hospitalized or died after errors involving blood thinner Coumadin or its generic version, warfarin, according to a ProPublica analysis of...
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Kentucky woman finally gets lung transplants
After months of waiting, the 24-year-old woman who received national attention over her financial and policy battle with Medicare and Medicaid to get lung transplants has new lungs and is...
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Ky.’s pro-Obamacare policies led to more enrollment and support for it, but many poor are still uninsured and under-informed
Update: This story was updated to reflect the study’s results for those who said they were hurt by and not directly impacted by the ACA. State policy appears to have...
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Medicaid managed-care firms get new contracts with new rules aimed at resolving health-care providers’ issues with program
Kentucky has signed new contracts with five managed-care firms that will manage Medicaid coverage for more than 1.1 million Kentuckians. Contracts were awarded to Anthem, Coventry Cares, Humana, Passport and...