Tag: Medicaid
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Federal report says many hospitals wouldn’t keep critical-access designation if distance rules were strictly enforced
More than two dozen Kentucky communities still have hospitals because of the critical-access hospital program, in which small, isolated hospitals get higher Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements in return for limiting...
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Thursday morning webinar will explain health reform law
UPDATE: The webinar is archived here. Amid much speculation and misinformation about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Kentucky Voices for Health will hold a webinar this week to...
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Auditor Edelen says Medicaid providers 8 percent fewer under managed care; cabinet says report is limited, outdated
The number of people relaying on Medicaid will increase dramatically in 2014, as Kentucky expands it to include people with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level,...
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Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes
With Kentucky’s doctor shortage about to be exacerbated by expansion of the Medicaid program and federally subsidized health insurance, there will be more competition than ever to recruit physicians, especially...
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Health Watch USA hosts chief medical director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Lexington and online July 31
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be presenting to Kentucky-based Health Watch USA on July 31 at 5 p.m., and...
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School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medicaid reimbursements have squeezed the health agencies, and they...
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Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state’s hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear rushed to transplant Medicaid into a new bed called managed care, hoping the new medium would save money and improve health,...
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Kentucky among states selected to study, address expensive problem of ‘superusers’ of emergency rooms
Kentucky is one of a few states teaming up with the National Governors Association to address the expensive problem of uninsured or Medicaid-covered “superusers” who over-use hospital emergency rooms or other...
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Online health-insurance exchange will differ in several ways from those in other states; scheduled to go online Oct. 1
Kentucky is one of 17 states setting up its own online health-insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A new report provides a limited update about the process,...
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Kentucky picks up on federal Medicaid funding for inmates, which will expand when health reform takes full effect
Medicaid now covers care for inmates outsideprisons and jails, and health reform will extendcoverage to most former prisoners upon release. By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky has missed out on millions of...