Tag: state budget
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Paducah Sun editorial criticizing Medicaid expansion was off base; Beshear sends the newspaper a response
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Paducah Sun relied on incomplete and inaccurate information for an editorial Thursday that criticized Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of the Medicaid program under federal...
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Louisville jails sign up inmates for health coverage to save the state money; other jails around state may follow suit
Louisville jails are holding daily health insurance sign-ups for released inmates, Chris Kenning reports for The Courier-Journal. Most inmates qualify for expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
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Beshear budget would expand oral health, cancer screening, brain-injury treatment and alternatives to institutionalization
Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed state budget includes money to expand oral health programs, screening for cervical and breast cancer, treatment for Kentuckians with brain injuries and programs to held disabled...
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Haynes says Obamacare may drive down Ky.’s health ranking initially because so many uninsured have gone undiagnosed
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s low health rankings may get lower before they go up, both because of the state’s expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform, the...
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Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday
What will it take for Kentucky to become a healthier state? That will be the question at the fall meeting of the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, at the...
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School nurses are an unfunded mandate for schools, which are picking up more of their cost as health department budgets shrink
Marion County nurse Renee Schooling helps Levi Hardin, a Marion County first grader with diabetes, check his blood sugar. (Lebanon Enterprise Photo by Stevie Lowery) Kentucky school nurses are stretched thin across...
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Harlan County Schools look for school-nurse help after county health department, which had done it for free, asks for $10,000
http://www.harlandaily.com/view/full_story/23219874/article-Board-tackles-nurse-issue? Update: http://www.harlandaily.com/view/full_story/23250170/article-School-district-asked-to-pay-for-nursing-services?
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Rushed transition to managed care is cautionary tale for other states, especially those with large rural populations
Since Kentucky’s abrupt change to a Medicaid managed-care system in 2011, problems have been widespread among patients and providers, highlighting the dangers for other states, and especially rural ones, about...
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Weekly paper in Hazard says Beshear should expand Medicaid
Gov. Steve Beshear should expand the Medicaid program for the poor under federal health reform to improve the health and welfare of Kentuckians, The Hazard Herald said in its editorial...
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If Republican governors are agreeing to expand Medicaid after lobbying by hospitals, can Beshear be far behind?
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s surprising announcement that he would use federal health-care reform money to expand the Medicaid program to households earning up to...