Tag: Medicaid
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Lung transplant recipient who battled bureaucracy to get coverage, dies five days after being widowed; funeral Sunday
“Katie Prager, the Kentucky lung transplant recipient whose story with her late husband, Dalton, touched millions, has died,” reports Cheryl Truman of The Lexington Herald-Leader. Katie and Dalton met online...
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Health advocacy group that opposes new Medicaid proposal to hold eight community forums across the state to discuss it
This story was updated on 9/23/16. Kentucky Voices for Health will host eight community forums across the state to discuss Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program...
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Kentucky’s uninsured rate drops to 6 percent; states that expanded Medicaid, like Kentucky, saw the greatest drops
The share of Kentuckians without health insurance dropped by more than half from 2013 to 2015, bringing it down to only 6 percent of the state’s population, from 14.3 percent, according...
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Feds reject Ohio’s Medicaid proposal, which was a lot like Ky.’s; federal comment period for Kentucky plan runs through Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rejected Ohio’s new Medicaid plan Friday, saying it could lead to the state’s low-income people losing health...
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Open comment period begins today for Gov. Matt Bevin’s Medicaid request to feds for Medicaid waiver; ends Oct. 8
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians have 30 days to let the federal government know what it thinks about Gov. Matt Bevin’s new Medicaid plan, starting today and ending...
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Bevin submits formal Medicaid proposal to federal government, largely unchanged from his draft; negotiations come next
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration formally submitted its revised Medicaid plan to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Aug. 24, leaving largely unchanged...
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Nursing-home rating tool has added 5 new quality measures; here are tips for choosing a facility, and Kentucky’s worst-rated
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Choosing a nursing home is a daunting task and often done in the middle of a crisis, but it doesn’t have to be if...
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Nonprofit groups question Bevin’s plan to require ‘volunteer’ work from able-bodied adults who aren’t primary caregivers
Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to require volunteer work from unemployed, able-bodied Medicaid members isn’t sitting well with the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, which represents nearly 600 of the state’s nonprofit groups,...
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Philosophical divide evident at Medicaid oversight meeting; Bevin officials say revised plan will be sent to feds ‘shortly’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Gov. Matt Bevin prepared to ask federal officials to let him change the state’s Medicaid program, a discussion at a legislative committee meeting...
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2.4% of Kentucky Medicaid’s emergency-room costs in 2015, or $9.3 million, were for non-emergency cases
Taxpayers paid nearly $385 million in 2015 for emergency-room visits for Medicaid patients, $9.3 million for cases that were judged not to be emergencies, according to state data gathered by...