Tag: physicians
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Commission says drastic changes to doctor pay and cuts to wasteful services can fix Medicare problem without tax hikes
A national advisory panel says “drastic changes” in how Medicare reimburses doctors and other providers are needed to shore up Medicare’s finances, improve patient outcomes and rein in health care...
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Legislature sends fix of last year’s pill-mill bill to Beshear
“After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky’s prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ease requirements on patients is heading to...
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Physician assistants and some doctors urge lawmakers to pass bill that could ease provider shortage in rural Kentucky
Doctors and more than 150 physician-assistant students urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass a bill they stated involves dropping only one requirement in the law and could ease a physician shortage in...
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Painkiller epidemic was driven in part by drug makers’ financial relationships with researchers who discounted the risks
For almost a decade, medical officials and experts claimed OxyContin rarely posed problems of addiction for patients. The drug’s label, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, said addiction...
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Group of 550 doctors in Central Ky. leaving Medicaid’s Coventry
A Lexington-area network of doctors says it will no longer contract with Coventry Cares, a Medicaid managed-care company, after Coventry said “it would begin to pay less than the established...
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Managed-care doctor creates process to steer pregnant Medicaid recipients who are using dangerous drugs into treatment
When Dr. Jeremy Corbett of Lexington found that “nearly one in five pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid managed-care program where he works were using narcotics or other harmful drugs,” he...
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Republican legislators keep hammering state officials and managed-care companies about Medicaid payment delays
Republican lawmakers reitarated this week that the companies managing Medcaid in Kentucky are still not paying health providers promptly. According to Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, in the year since the...
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Medical licensure board changing rules to focus more on painkillers; fewer urine tests for patients, fewer reports for doctors
Patients in long-term treatment with controlled substances won’t have to have their urine tested for drugs unless they are on painkillers, and doctors will have wide discretion over how often...
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State officials appear to be overstating successes of new prescription-drug law, The Courier-Journal reports
There’s new criticism from Kentucky’s doctors in an analysis of the state’s four-month old prescription drug law, showing that a lot of what state officials have touted as the law’s...
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Doctor’s rejection of the willfully obese makes exercise expert ask: Who’s responsible for your health? Who should pay for it?
Bryant Stamford, professor and chairman of the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College in Indiana, wrote in his weekly exercise-and-health column Thursday’s edition of The Courier-Journal: “I caught...