Tag: Medicaid
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Coventry, ARH at impasse over Medicaid; state says service will not be interrupted for 25,000 affected
Though negotiations between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and Coventry Cares appear to be futile, the state is taking steps to make sure there won’t be an interruption in care for the Medicaid...
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Significant management improvements at Passport Health Plan, audit finds
Passport Health Plan has improved significantly since a 2010 audit uncovered wasteful spending and other problems, a new audit has concluded. The managed care organization that cares for Medicaid recipients...
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531 deficiencies found in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in first quarter of 2012; worst one had 29; five had none
State inspectors found 531 deficiencies in 80 Kentucky nursing homes in the first quarter of this year, with one facility accounting for 29 of them alone: Life Care Center of...
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Coventry changes course, will pay for addiction-treatment drug
Reversing its decision, likely after it was pressured to do so, a Medicaid managed-care organization will continue to pay for a drug used to treat drug addiction. Coventry Cares said...
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Medicaid managed-care firm Coventry plans to stop paying for expensive drug that curtails addiction
Coventry Cares, one of the four firms that manage patient care for the state Medicaid program, has once again hit the headlines, this time for its plans to stop paying...
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Cabinet must ‘wield the stick’ to get managed care under control, state auditor says
Though the state has a solid contract “filled with all the mechanisms you need for enforcement, from the carrots to the sticks,” the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has...
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Coventry agrees to keep covering ARH patients until June 30
After a two-hour hearing in federal court, managed-care firm CoventryCares agreed yesterday to keep paying Appalachian Regional Healthcare for treating Medicaid patients at its hospitals through at least June 30...
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare asks federal judge to make managed-care firm keep it under contract
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a hospital chain in Eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, is seeking an emergency injunction by a federal judge ordering Coventry Cares to let its Kentucky members...
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Appalachian hospital chain, facing loss of 25,000 Medicaid patients, sues managed-care firms and state
“Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the largest health care system in Eastern Kentucky, has filed lawsuits against two of the state’s Medicaid managed care companies, alleging that the managed care companies had...
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Beshear vetoes parts of budget, but health spending is intact
Though Gov. Steve Beshear vetoed 45 parts of the state budget yesterday evening, health-related spending was safe from the cut. The budget will help reduce caseloads for social workers who...