Tag: state budget
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Health secretary tells legislators Medicaid budget has been balanced by moving all beneficiaries to managed care
The switch to managed care organizations has fixed Kentucky’s Medicaid shortfall, with Janie Miller, secretary of health and family services, calling the budget “balanced.” She said the projected savings from...
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Program serving young, blind children hit hard by state budget cuts
A program that helps educate blind preschoolers throughout Kentucky has had its state funding drastically cut. Louisville-based Visually Impaired Preschool Services, also known as VIPS, will only receive $10,000 from the...
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Louisville’s University Hospital limits care for non-local patients
University Hospital in Louisville has been forced to stop providing some free or deeply discounted care to patients who live outside Jefferson County. The number of low-income patients coming to...
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State awards Medicaid managed-care contracts to 4 firms, including Passport; networks to be established by Oct. 1
In an effort to save $1 billion in the next three years, and fill a hole in the current state budget, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Thursday that Kentucky’s Medicaid program...
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Bidders to manage Medicaid unknown; contracts July 1?
It is not known who bid on taking over the work, but Kentucky is advancing plans to turn Medicaid over to managed-care organizations. The move, which will allow the organizations...
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Beshear will use line-item veto on Medicaid bill to remove mandatory cuts in other state programs and school funding
Democrats appear to have prevailed in the State Capitol battle over the budget and Medicaid. (Update, March 25: Beshear issued the vetoes.) After the Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget fix...
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Near-unanimous House passes Medicaid plan; Senate mum
By an overwhelming margin of 94-4, the state House today passed a bipartisan bill to fix the state Medicaid budget, again putting the ball in the court of the Republicans...
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As expected, Beshear asks legislature to move $100 million from next year’s Medicaid budget to make up this year’s shortfall
Gov. Steve Beshear, left, is urging the legislature to pass legislation that would rectify a $100 million shortfall in the 2011 Medicaid budget. If it doesn’t, Beshear said payments for...