Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Ky. still has 300,000 without health coverage; they’re more likely to be working, and younger and less educated, than the insured
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The 300,000 Kentuckians who still lacked health coverage at the end of 2015 were more likely to be working but earning low pay. They were...
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Health insurers get almost all of the rate hikes they requested for plans on exchange; some get more than they asked for
The state Department of Insurance has largely approved the rate increases that health-insurance companies requested for individual and small-group plans that will be sold through the federal health-insurance exchange for...
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Analysis of Ind. Medicaid plan, Bevin model, shows same concern about financial hardship voiced by Ky. critics; Ind. officials reply
Gov. Matt Bevin By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News While Republican Gov. Matt Bevin works on his proposal to reform his Democratic predecessor’s expansion of Medicaid, the Indiana program that...
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No Kentucky health-insurance plans eligible for federal subsidies offer comprehensive coverage of addiction treatment
Photo from drugabuse.com More than two-thirds of state health-insurance plans eligible for federal subsidies violate federal treatment requirements for addiction disorders, says the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse....
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Lexington, Paducah newspapers’ editorials take diametrically opposing sides on Bevin’s proposed changes to Medicaid
Governor Matt Bevin (Photo from politicususa.com) By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s most reliably liberal editorial voice and one of its most reliably conservative are, not surprisingly, on opposite...
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Work-oriented requirements in Medicaid plan could hit a snag; feds haven’t approved a plan with such requirements yet
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan for Medicaid might not be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as readily as he suggested, because...
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Medicaid stakeholders OK with healthy behavior incentives, oppose penalizing recipients who don’t take part in cost sharing
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Groups of people concerned about changes in Kentucky’s Medicaid program are open to the state offering incentives for healthy behaviors, but...
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Feds strengthen anti-discrimination health rules
Photo from mdxipe.wordpress.com By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News The Department of Health and Human Services issued rules Friday in an effort to ensure equality in health care for women,...
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Kentucky Center for Economic Policy report warns about impact of Bevin’s proposed Medicaid changes
By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News A research group with a liberal outlook warned Monday that Republican Gov. Matt Bevin should be careful in changing the state Medicaid program. The...
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Many Americans, including those on Obamacare plans, can’t afford their health-insurance deductibles, studies show
The United States has entered the era of high out-of-pocket medical cost as a way to keep insurance premiums low, but recent studies have found that many Americans are having...