Tag: Medicaid
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Louisville jails sign up inmates for health coverage to save the state money; other jails around state may follow suit
Louisville jails are holding daily health insurance sign-ups for released inmates, Chris Kenning reports for The Courier-Journal. Most inmates qualify for expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
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Roy Butler, ‘father of Medicaid’ in Kentucky, passes
Roy Butler, called “Father of Medicaid” in Kentucky, died Monday morning of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He grew up during the Great Depression on a farm in Franklin County, where...
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Republicans wait for elections and chance to roll back Medicaid expansion; few Kentucky Democrats defend Obamacare
Though thousands of their constituents have benefited from it, Republican state legislators say they are planning to roll back Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection...
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Kentuckians who ran into problems signing up for insurance on state website get a second chance through April 11
Kentuckians who had trouble starting or completing their application during the open enrollment period can still apply for subsidies and purchase health coverage at Kynect.ky.gov through midnight April 11. This applies...
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State will reopen health-insurance enrollment for eight days, starting Friday, citing heavy demand
Kentucky will extend its deadline to sign up for insurance under federal health reform, citing a surge of last minute applications. Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that Kentuckians will be...
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Obamacare raised woman’s premium 74% but she’s thankful it has extended health care to those who didn’t have it
“Beneath the loud debate” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it is “quietly starting to change the health care landscape,” writes Abby Goodnough of The New York Times,...
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Kynect enrollment accelerates as Monday deadline nears; call center to be open form 8 to 4:30 Saturday and Sunday
Enrollment in coverage through the state’s Kynect health-insurance exchange is accelerating as Monday’s deadline for open enrollment approached. State officials reported Friday that the rate has surpassed 4,000 per day,...
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One in 13 Kentuckians have health coverage through Kynect
Nearly 322,000 Kentuckians had enrolled for health coverage through the state’s new insurance exchange through 6 p.m. Thursday, March 20, and three-fourths of them didn’t have coverage before, according to...
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Hospitals try to do more with less while not compromising quality as they adjust to changes in the health-care marketplace
A. B. Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky Hospitals are laying off employees and cutting budgets because of changes in the marketplace and the ways consumers seek care,...
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Primary care, a big focus of health reform, faces challenges as Kentucky doctors deal with change
Craig Dooley, newly covered by Medicaid under health reform, got an X-ray in Dr. Sven Jonsson’s Baptist Health office. (Photo by Luke Sharrett for The New York Times) Primary-care doctors are...