Tag: state government
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Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance — a cooperative that is...
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Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the ‘new asylums,’ Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky’s prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it’s part of a growing national problem. “America’s lockups are its new asylums,” Gary...
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Obamacare recruiters encounter resistance in rural Kentucky
Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentucky, where “tend to be less connected to the Internet and...
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State picks managed-care outfits for expanded Medicaid
The state awarded contracts Friday to Humana Inc., Passport Health Plan and Wellpoint subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to manage the health care of Kentuckians who will become eligible for Medicaid when...
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Webinars to be held Thursday, Sept. 12, for small businesses to help them plan for implementation of the Affordable Care Act
What will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mean for Kentucky’s small businesses? A webinar Thursday, Sept. 12 is designed to address such questions about the federal health-care reform...
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Are health insurers trying to trick individual policyholders into renewing before they can shop on new insurance exchange?
UPDATE, Sept. 25: The state has fined Humana $10 per letter, or $65,430, for sending the letters, Chris Kenning of The Courier-Journal reports. State officials say Humana Inc. is misleading...
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Kentucky has nation’s first statewide, comprehensive plan for diabetes prevention; 10 percent of us have the disease
Kentucky leads the way in the fight against diabetes and towards improving health for future generations of Kentuckians by becoming the first state to legislatively require a statewide, comprehensive action...
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State insurance exchange call center gets 422 calls in first week; Herald-Leader story lists common questions and answers
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/08/22/2780783/ky-call-center-shares-answers.html
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Agreement will move at least 600 from personal-care homes to community mental health facilities
At least 600 people now in personal-care homes will be moved to community-based settings under “an agreement that advocates say will systematically change the way community mental health services are...