Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Hospitals try to do more with less while not compromising quality as they adjust to changes in the health-care marketplace
A. B. Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky Hospitals are laying off employees and cutting budgets because of changes in the marketplace and the ways consumers seek care,...
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Kentucky does well in national comparison of premiums and tax credits in new health-insurance system
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, health-insurance costs vary from region to region and state to state, and federal subsidies won’t remove all of the differences, Christopher Snowbeck...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, claims most of the business on the state insurance exchange
This story was updated Tuesday, March 4. The Kentucky Health Cooperative, a non-profit, consumer-governed health plan, says it has captured 61 75 percent of the business on Kentucky’s health-insurance exchange, according...
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KentuckyOne Health lays off 500 of 15,000 employees, says it won’t fill 200 vacancies; cites Obamacare and merger
KentuckyOne Health, which dominates the Louisville hospital market and has scores of locations across the state, says it has laid off 500 of its 15,000 employees and identified 200 vacancies...
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County analysis shows wide range in numbers of previously uninsured who now have coverage through state exchange
Since enrollment for coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened Oct. 1, more than 255,000 Kentucky residents have signed up; because a goal of the law is...
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Medical identity theft increasing; survey says 43% of leaks involve medical records
Modern technology has brought about an increase in identity theft and lately in a particularly dangerous form: medical identity theft. According to a survey conducted by the Identity Theft Resource...
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How to succeed in health insurance for your small business without really trying — well, maybe without trying too hard
UPDATE, Feb. 11: The Obama administration has again delayed and relaxed the requirements for employers to provide health insurance. Employers with 50 to 99 employees won’t be required to cover...
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Beshear says Obamacare will make Kentucky healthier, wealthier
Beshear speaks at the Good Morning Bluegrass event in Lexington. (Photo by Melissa Landon) Gov. Steve Beshear focused on health issues in remarks to a civic meeting Friday in Lexington. “We...
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Obamacare in Ky.: Those who say they have enough info on how it affects them favor it; those who lack info say they don’t favor it
Kentuckians’ support of the federal health-reform law remains low, with only 30 percent saying they view it favorably and 48 percent unfavorably, but 57 percent said they didn’t have enough...