Tag: poverty
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Four companies will oversee Medicaid coverage in 16-county Louisville region that includes 175,000 Kentuckians
Beginning Jan. 1, four companies will share management of the health care of roughly 175,000 Medicaid patients in the Jefferson County region. This reflects a major, federally mandated change that...
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Infant mortality, pre-term birth, teenage pregnancy, children living in smokers’ homes all drop even as as child poverty goes up
Nationwide, the rates of infants who die, babies who are born prematurely, teens who are having babies, and the percentage of young children who live in a home where someone...
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Who is on Medicaid already? Not all poor Kentuckians, foundation president says on op-ed distributed to Kentucky newspapers
By Susan Zepeda President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act, states have many...
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Appalachian Regional Healthcare asks federal judge to make managed-care firm keep it under contract
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a hospital chain in Eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia, is seeking an emergency injunction by a federal judge ordering Coventry Cares to let its Kentucky members...
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Managed-care firm blames state for problems leading to impending end of contract with ARH hospitals
In the face of a lawsuit that alleges it did not pay claims promptly, Coventry Health and Life Insurance Co. blamed the state for problems that have surfaced since managed care...
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Convenience, not expense, is making us avoid eating fruits, vegetables and other non-processed foods
A lack of convenience, not a high price, is the major obstacle to getting people to eat more fruit and vegetables, a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition...
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Kentucky is 43rd among the states in health rankings report
Kentucky is near the bottom of the list in a ranking that determines which states are the healthiest. It came in 43rd, up from 44th last year. Kentucky’s low ranking...
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Kentucky Youth Advocates gets $100,000 to push for income-tax policies aimed at helping the poor improve their health
Kentucky Youth Advocates is one of 12 coalitions nationwide to receive a “Roadmaps to Health” grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The non-profit children’s advocacy organization will receive $100,000...
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Last year, 17.4 percent of Kentuckians lived in poverty and 17.5 percent did not have health insurance
More than one in six Kentuckians lived in poverty last year and almost exactly the same number didn’t have health insurance, preliminary U.S. Census numbers show. The state’s poverty rate was 17.4...