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Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states picked for national institute
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10:48 AM
State Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner is one of seven state program directors to participate in the year-long Medicaid Leadership Ins...
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Judge refuses to stop Kentucky Spirit from leaving the state, saying health cabinet has had plenty of time to prepare
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3:10 PM
A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge refused on Monday to stop Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit from leaving the state on Friday, Ju...
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Kentucky Spirit still plans to leave state July 5; judge rules that state can't require company to stay for two-month transition
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3:45 PM
In the latest development in the saga of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit , ...
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The school health services gamble: Ky. health departments could win on the state's bet against Kentucky Spirit's appeal of ruling
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s health departments may soon get money for school nurses, based on a court ruling in May th...
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Kentucky Spirit appeals court ruling that it can't quit Kentucky early
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Centene Corp. announced Monday that it has appealed the Franklin Circuit Court ruling in May that sa...
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Free HIV testing available from health departments and community-based health groups in June; key to AIDS prevention
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2:37 PM
In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27, community-based organizations and local health departments are hosting free HIV testing thr...
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Website eases application process for SNAP, formerly food stamps, and promotes healthy food
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12:15 PM
With a federal grant, the state Department for Community Based Services has launched a customer service website to promote healthy foods...
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Three Kentucky health departments in first group up for national accreditation; requires local health assessment, improvement plan
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky health departments are among the first in the nation to be considered for national acc...
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Health-care law addresses the most common chronic health problem in children, tooth decay, by requiring coverage for kids
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11:34 AM
Tooth decay is children's most common chronic health problem, and the 2010 federal health-care law addresses this problem by requiring i...
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Medicaid managed-care firm files suit, alleging the state's rush job resulted in unreliable financial information for bidders
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10:13 AM
Medicaid managed-care company Kentucky Spirit alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that Gov. Steve Beshear so hurriedly privatized the service...
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Breast cancer awareness: Testing urged, guidelines explained, misconceptions explored
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Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2, the genes most commonly involved in breast cancer, have up to an 80 percent chance of getting the disease. Oct...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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 probl...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...