Tag: state government
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Republican senator suggests expanding Kynect to other states to help pay state’s coming share of Medicaid expansion
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the Republican nominee for governor says he would dismantle the state health-insurance exchange branded as Kynect, a GOP senator is talking about not...
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Lawmakers and health officials meet to discuss increased use of heroin during pregnancy and thus, more addicted babies
Health officials and lawmakers met at the University of Kentucky Hospital Aug. 10 to discuss the increasing use of heroin among pregnant women and how this has caused a huge...
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Legislators wary of commenting on study that says Medicaid expansion will pay for itself by creating jobs and tax revenue
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky legislators reflected mainly partisan attitudes about the state’s implementation of federal health reform in a statewide call-in interview show about the state budget...
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Health insurance co-op lost $50.4 million, most in U.S.; officials blame high enrollment, big claims; say it will stay solvent
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A federal audit of the non-profit health insurance companies formed under federal health reform found that at the end of 2014, all but one...
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Consumer Reports releases annual hospital-acquired infection report; some Ky. hospitals have work to do; state to get data
A new study from Consumer Reports has analyzed hospital-acquired infection data for thousands of hospitals across the U.S. and rated them on how well they prevented these infections. Not all...
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Beshear touts Ky. as example to follow in drug fight, Obamacare
As the U.S. health secretary reminded the national governors’ conference that the administration is trying to put another $100 million into fighting drug addiction, Gov. Steve Beshear cited Kentucky as...
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Kentucky is cracking down on Suboxone, a heroin substitute that has become a big part of the illegal trade in painkillers
A drug that was supposed to help people get off heroin has “created a new cash-for-pills market and a street trade” that state officials are trying to stop, Mary Meehan reports...
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Republican legislators question cabinet’s figures on managed-care payments and cost projections for Medicaid expansion
Audrey Haynes (cn|2 image) “When Audrey Haynes sat down before the legislature’s Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee Wednesday, she expected the data she brought would persuade lawmakers that Kentucky’s expansion...
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New license plate would promote outdoor recreation, support environmental education programs; 900 buyers needed to start
A new “Let’s Go Outside” license plate is being offered to give Kentucky motorists the opportunity to promote the health and environmental benefits of outdoor recreation. First Lady Jane Beshear...
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State health commissioner backs needle exchanges, most controversial part of anti-heroin legislation passed this year
The Kentucky General Assembly cracked down in 2012 on “pill mills” that dispense painkillers irresponsibly, and addicts responded by going for heroin, creating a big problem in much of the...