Tag: Medicare
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Health-care jobs fewer than projected, but health secretary says Medicaid expansion is still on track to pay for itself through 2020
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – The basic financial premise of Kentucky’s expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform is that the addition of so many people...
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Common blood thinner Coumadin is causing deaths and injuries in nursing homes, prompting calls for more regulation
From 2011 to 2014, at least 165 nursing-home residents were hospitalized or died after errors involving blood thinner Coumadin or its generic version, warfarin, according to a ProPublica analysis of...
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Kentucky woman finally gets lung transplants
After months of waiting, the 24-year-old woman who received national attention over her financial and policy battle with Medicare and Medicaid to get lung transplants has new lungs and is...
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Three doctors, nine others in western half of Kentucky are indicted in the largest-ever federal ‘takedown’ of Medicaid fraud
Former Dr. Fred Gott of Bowling Green was arrested.(Photo: Miranda Pederson, Bowling Green Daily News) Twelve people in the western half of Kentucky, including three doctors, have been charged with Medicaid...
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Seniors get a lot of anti-anxiety drugs, sometimes in dangerous combination with narcotics; Ky. ranks third in the nation in that
When Medicare’s drug program, called Part D, was put into place more than a decade ago, Congress decided to not pay for anti-anxiety medications. In 2013, when Medicare started paying...
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Newspapers’ data analysis finds that Kentucky’s seniors on Medicare are among the sickest in U.S.; local data available
Red counties are over 21%. For map with data, click here. The top 10 Kentucky counties with the highest percentage of seniors on Medicare who have six or more chronic...
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Kentucky hospitals say they’re losing money on Obamacare, as cost of treating new Medicaid patients exceeds reimbursements
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky hospitals are struggling financially because of the billions of dollars in cuts caused by the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
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Most Kentucky hospitals did average or better in new patient satisfaction ratings; seven got top rating and six got bottom rating
Most of the Kentucky hospitals that were rated on a newly released five-star scale for patient satisfaction got three and four stars. Seven of them got a five-star rating and...
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Federal agency offers a consumer-friendly website that ranks patients’ experiences in your local hospitals
Consumers now have access to a website that ranks 3,500 hospitals around the country on patients’ experiences to help them choose a hospital and better understand the quality of care...
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Auditor will hold meetings in Prestonsburg, Princeton and Somerset to discuss his report on financial status of rural hospitals
State Auditor Adam Edelen will hold three public meetings in rural communities to discuss the findings of his special report about the financial health of rural hospitals. The meetings will be...