Tag: Medicaid
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Chart shows how to get coverage under federal health reform
The core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is helping people get health insurance, beginning next year. That will be relatively simple for some people, but complicated for...
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Group of 550 doctors in Central Ky. leaving Medicaid’s Coventry
A Lexington-area network of doctors says it will no longer contract with Coventry Cares, a Medicaid managed-care company, after Coventry said “it would begin to pay less than the established...
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Feds tell states it’s all or nothing on Medicaid expansion; Washington Post map shows Ky. is only state ‘leaning’ toward it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above...
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Managed-care doctor creates process to steer pregnant Medicaid recipients who are using dangerous drugs into treatment
When Dr. Jeremy Corbett of Lexington found that “nearly one in five pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid managed-care program where he works were using narcotics or other harmful drugs,” he...
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Republican legislators keep hammering state officials and managed-care companies about Medicaid payment delays
Republican lawmakers reitarated this week that the companies managing Medcaid in Kentucky are still not paying health providers promptly. According to Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, in the year since the...
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Haynes: Medicaid case managers threatened, and more bumps ahead, but state beginning to see advantages of new system
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some Medicaid case managers’ lives have been threatened because they have tried to get Medicaid patients to go to primary-care doctors instead of emergency...
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American Lung Association calls state’s tobacco-cessation benefit inadequate now that Medicaid is under managed care
Kentucky added a robust tobacco cessation benefit to its Medicaid program, only to lose much of it in 2011 by putting the program under managed care by insurance companies, the American...
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Northern Kentucky included in Medicaid’s pilot program to increase data about quality of health care
The Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, which includes much of Northern Kentucky, is included as one of three regions to participate in a program designed to bolster availability of...
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Expanding Medicaid in Kentucky would add 5 percent to the state’s cost over the next 10 years, national study predicts
Expanding Medicaid to people making up to 138 percent of the poverty level under federal health reform and its heavy subsidies would cost Kentucky about 5 percent more for Medicaid...
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In Ky. and elsewhere, elections may decide Medicaid expansion
In Texas, Brandi DeFrank’s Medicaidcoverage ended when her baby, Gabriel,was born. His coverage continued. Voters’ choices on Tuesday about who sits in statehouses may matter more in the long run...