Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Electronic patient records may not save money, study finds; critics question methodology
Though officials tout otherwise, a study has found electronic health records do not cut costs “and may actually encourage doctors to order expensive tests more often,” reports Steve Lohr for...
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Kentucky receives $57.9 million to set up insurance exchange
Kentucky received $57.9 million Wednesday to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace — though lawmakers have made no move to make that happen. Kentucky is one of...
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Pat Boone commercial about Medicare has many inaccuracies
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at...
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Retailers like Walmart, CVS getting into primary care, eyeing the prize that awaits if health reform takes effect in 2014
Last week, a document leaked showing Walmart‘s intention to become the country’s largest provider of primary health services, but the company’s interest is not unique. Drug retailers like CVS Caremark...
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Even the experts seem to have more questions than answers when it comes to the federal health-care reform law
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. — Confusion, primary care doctors overwhelmed by an influx of new patients, and employers opting to pay fines rather than health insurance are...
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Louisville hospital merger would be just one of dozens across the country, driven by economic and regulatory concerns
Hospitals are banding together to create organizations better able to withstand the changing tides of the economy and health-care policy. The proposed merger of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s...
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Conway supports, P’Pool opposes meds-for-meth law; Conway defends decsion not to join lawsuits about federal health reform
In a debate where most of the sparks flew over often-specious questions about conflicts of interest, one of the biggest substantive disagreements between the candidates for attorney general Monday night...
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Natl. Rural Health Assn. president, at UK, says rural health cuts won’t save money or help communities but will eliminate jobs
Speaking about President Obama’s proposed cuts to rural health care Wednesday, Susan Starling was frank about her feelings: “As a CEO of a critical access hospital, I’m very nervous. What...
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Health exchange could cost up to $34 million in Ohio; Kentucky still biding its time — until after the election?
As 27 states, including Kentucky, bide their time in setting up a health care exchange — a key component of the federal health-reform law — Ohio officials have said setting...
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Hospitals merging to shore up finances and, as federal health-reform law encourages, improve patient outcomes
With one expert calling it “merger mania,” Robert Hadley of The Lane Report looks at how Kentucky hospitals and hospital systems are banding together as they brace for reimbursement changes...