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Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care's next era; session to be videostreamed

Posted by | 1:31 PM
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum "Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Car...

Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange

Posted by | 11:46 AM
A judge upheld Gov. Steve Beshear's decisions to expand Medicaid and set up the state's health-insurance exchange under federal heal...

Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid

Posted by | 1:01 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear rushed to transplant Medicaid into a new bed called managed care, hoping the new m...

Kentucky among states selected to study, address expensive problem of 'superusers' of emergency rooms

Posted by | 1:30 PM
Kentucky is one of a few states teaming up with the National Governors Association  to address the expensive problem of uninsured or Medicai...

Business leaders discuss possibility of expanding Medicaid through private insurance

Posted by | 1:32 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky business leaders are discussing a possible endorsement of expanding Medicaid through pr...

Lawsuit alleges state health insurance exchange is unauthorized

Posted by | 8:38 AM
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

Posted by | 12:10 PM
Gov. Steve Beshear has vetoed the bill designed to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay health-care providers more quickly, but is taking ad...

Will Kentucky expand Medicaid, and if so, how?

Posted by | 11:30 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky is one of the last states to decide whether to expand Medicaid under federal health reform, ...

Senate sends bill for prompt payment by managed-care firms to Beshear, who won't say whether he will sign or veto it

Posted by | 2:15 PM
A bill aimed at resolving payment disputes between medical providers and Medicaid managed-care companies passed unanimously Monday in the Se...

Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban

Posted by | 11:52 AM
Gov. Steve Beshear endorsed a statewide smoking ban yesterday at a Frankfort rally to push the bill that would enact the ban. "Beshear,...

Beshear calls for action to improve state's health, but says only that 'It's time for us to begin looking seriously' at a smoking ban

Posted by | 8:57 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News His priorities were education and tax reform, but Gov. Steve Beshear mentioned several health issues in his...