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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...
Haynes asks hospitals for a truce as they and state work through problems with managed-care Medicaid
Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes won a smattering of applause from Kentucky hospital officials Thursday as she called for ...
Smokers shouldn't get Medicaid or Medicare, says freshman Republican lawmaker who grows tobacco
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Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban...
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 firs...
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Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange
National magazine looks at drug companies' efforts to stop anti-methamphetamine bills, especially in Kentucky
Community-based solutions to childhood obesity show signs of progress elsewhere; will Kentucky pick up on them?
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News For decades, researchers reported with alarm the increasing trend of overweight children in America, ...
As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
Ky. is already short of doctors, dentists; how will its health-care system handle expansion of Medicaid and private insurance?
Beshear says he will decide in four to five weeks, or July 1 at the latest, whether or not to expand Medicaid
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News This story has been updated. Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday that he will decide within the next four to fiv...
Lawsuit alleges state health insurance exchange is unauthorized
Tea Party activist David Adams filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Gov. Steve Beshear's legal authority to create Kentucky's health i...
Beshear vetoes prompt-pay bill but takes several steps to address problems in Medicaid; he and Haynes say it's working
Gov. Steve Beshear has vetoed the bill designed to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay health-care providers more quickly, but is taking ad...
Senate sends bill for prompt payment by managed-care firms to Beshear, who won't say whether he will sign or veto it
A bill aimed at resolving payment disputes between medical providers and Medicaid managed-care companies passed unanimously Monday in the Se...
Legislature eases physician assistant rules; nurse practitioners' prescription power, Medicaid prompt-payment bills, others linger
Bill encouraging schools to stock EpiPens to stop deadly allergic reactions will become law
A bill encouraging Kentucky schools to stock EpiPens, or epinephrine auto-injectors, to stop anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reacti...
Smoking ban gets 'a good scrubbing' before Judiciary Committee
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The bill for a statewide smoking ban is favored by three-fifths of Kentucky adults , but is dead for this s...
Legislature sends fix of last year's pill-mill bill to Beshear
"After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky’s prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ...
Bill for statewide smoking ban appears to have been extinguished
The bill to enact a statewide smoking ban in Kentucky appears to be dead for this session of the General Assembly. The House sent House Bill...
House panel approves bill easing rules of 2012's pill-mill bill
They could call it the pill they're taking to fix the pill-mill bill. A state House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would tweak l...
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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...
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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...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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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...
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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...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
