Tag: Medicaid
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Kentucky hospitals gave $1.96 billion to communities in 2011, including $576.7 million cover of Medicare, Medicaid shortfalls
In 2011, despite economic and financial obstacles, Kentucky hospitals’ estimated value of benefits to their communities up 17 percent from the year before, to $1.96 billion. So says the Kentucky...
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Feds letting Arkansas privatize Medicaid expansion; idea could spread like wildfire, as in Florida, but cost questions remain
Arkansas has turned heads nationally with its preliminary plan to expand Medicaid using the private insurance market, showing that the Obama administration is willing to give states more flexibility than...
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Commission says drastic changes to doctor pay and cuts to wasteful services can fix Medicare problem without tax hikes
A national advisory panel says “drastic changes” in how Medicare reimburses doctors and other providers are needed to shore up Medicare’s finances, improve patient outcomes and rein in health care...
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House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky’s health care. House Bill 217 addresses some “unintended consequences” of last year’s “pill mill bill” by easing some of the bills...
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Bill to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay up, and more promptly, nears final form in House and will get attention in Senate
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms’ delay or denial of payment claims appears to be generating a...
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Medicaid expansion brings primary care access to the forefront
The federal health reform law will usher at least seven million more Americans into Medicaid, and as states like Kentucky debate Medicaid expansion, policymakers are struggling with the question of whether there will...
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If Republican governors are agreeing to expand Medicaid after lobbying by hospitals, can Beshear be far behind?
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s surprising announcement that he would use federal health-care reform money to expand the Medicaid program to households earning up to...
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Herald-Leader says state running out of time to fix Medicaid managed care, with decision on expansion looming
A recent editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader called for swift legislative action to fix the problems of Medicaid managed care. Timely action is even more necessary since the state is considering expanding the program,...
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Beshear will expand Medicaid, Democrat and Republican say; D says governor believes the state can opt out if it’s not affordable
State legislators in both parties say they expect Gov. Steve Beshear to expand Medicaid to cover several hundred thousand more Kentuckians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal...
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Kasich of Ohio is fifth Republican governor to accept Medicaid expansion; he and others cite need to protect rural hospitals, poor
Several Republican governors have decided to expand Medicaid under federal health-care reform, saying their conservative principles were outweighed by a need to protect their state’s rural hospitals and low-income people. Yesterday, the...