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Obamacare's employer mandate poses challenges for schools
While Kentucky public-school employees get their health insurance through the state’s self-funded program and don't have to worry too mu...
Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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Adair County residents will get an extra tax bill as trustees of bankrupt hospital vote to levy a tax to pay its debts
Facing a $20 million debt and in bankruptcy, the Adair County Hospital District trustees voted unanimously Oct. 4 to impose a 10 cents-per-...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
As if buying health insurance isn't confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to be...
Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care's next era; session to be videostreamed
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum "Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Car...
Here are the basics of buying health insurance on the state exchange that opens Tuesday
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent mon...
Obamacare hearing highlights employers' worry and uncertainty; Yarmuth says repeal and defunding bids block needed changes
Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton
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Petition drive from parents asks UK Healthcare to release mortality rates for cardiothoracic surgeries on children
More than 250 people have signed a petition asking the University of Kentucky hospital "to make public the mortality rates for pediatri...
New survey shows physicians feel need to limit health-care costs but make that secondary to the interests of their patients
A new survey about health-care costs reveals that 85 percent of U.S. physicians feel a responsibility to address costs but say other profess...
Health Watch USA hosts chief medical director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Lexington and online July 31
Working with a local, regional or state health coalition? A simple step can help make healthy changes in Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is asking you to help update last year's Kentucky Health Coalitions Directory, a list of local gro...
Health insurers could exclude one in four Americans from coverage because they don't have bank accounts
Itchy, watery eyes? Some tips to relieve spring allergy symptoms
The sunshine and bright colors of spring are here, but so are seasonal allergies from pollen, dander, smog or mold that can often lead to it...
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FDA requires OxyContin pills to be non-crushable to deter abuse
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it would block generic, crushable versions of OxyContin from coming to the market an...
Confused or concerned about the impact of health reform on Kentucky businesses? There's a seminar for that.
To address possible confusion or concern of business people and the public about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Ob...
UK Healthcare says it must get even bigger, and expand its market area, to provide needed services to Kentucky
Managed care, pension payments causing problems for community mental health centers; Edelen, C-J call for changes
Health departments in N. Ky. and Franklin County are among the first 11 in the nation to be accredited, a milestone in public health
Three Kentucky departments are among the first 11 in the nation to receive accreditation from the national Public Health Accreditation Board...
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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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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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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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 ...
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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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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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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...
