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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
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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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National Rural Health Day to be held Nov. 21, including webinars on current topics
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7:29 AM
The third annual National Rural Health Day, which brings awareness to rural health issues and current efforts in addressing these issues, wi...
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New CEO of Owensboro Health says hospitals are working to improve care, regardless of federal health reform
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1:01 PM
Philip Patterson, the new CEO of the Owensboro Health , says hospitals are moving towards health reform regardless of what happens with the...
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Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
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2:28 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the re...
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UK's Gill Heart Institute joins Appalachian Regional Healthcare to advance specialty heart care in Eastern Kentucky
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12:17 PM
Appalachian Regional Healthcare , the Appalachian Heart Center and UK HealthCare’s Gill Heart Institute announced a new collaboration to d...
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Congressman visits Telehealth Primary Care Clinic in Campton
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8:31 AM
U.S. Rep. Andy Barr U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, a freshman Republican from the Sixth District, recently visited the Telehealth Primary Care Clinic ...
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Kentucky picks up on federal Medicaid funding for inmates, which will expand when health reform takes full effect
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10:21 AM
Medicaid now covers care for inmates outside prisons and jails, and health reform will extend coverage to most former prisoners upon release...
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As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
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4:10 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As Kentucky expands Medicaid and implements the Affordable Care Act, more Kentuckians will have healt...
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Kentucky expands Medicaid reimbursement for telehealth services, but lets managed-care firms keep authority over fees
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11:36 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Recent changes in Kentucky's telehealth regulations are making it easier for providers around the...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
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8:49 PM
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine ...
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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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Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it
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2:48 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration's decision to delay, for a year, the health-reform law's mandate tha...
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Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures
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9:01 PM
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking ...
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New York Times starts series that will study Affordable Care Act's implementation and impact in Louisville area
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8:12 PM
It's the calm before the health-care storm, and amid the uncertainty of how the health-care reform law will be implemented, health-care ...
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As Medicaid eligibility expands in Kentucky, so will subsidy of undocumented immigrants' health care
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11:51 AM
As Washington lawmakers struggle to find consensus on immigration reform, U.S. taxpayers continue to shell out money to subsidize health car...
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Doctor shortage news: Residencies are filling the pond with primary care doctors, but U.S. and Ky. need an ocean of them
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7:33 PM
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the country, only 25 percent of newly educated doctors go into this field, and even worse for...
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UK Board of Trustees OKs $31 million plan to outfit another floor of new hospital with eye toward federal certification for heart work
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1:55 PM
The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has given UK HealthCare the green light for its $31 million plan to outfit the eighth floor of...
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State officials tell health-care providers to meet with managed-care companies to get paid, say new system is improving health
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3:07 PM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News At the latest in a series of forums on Medicaid managed care, state officials said the ...
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Health insurers could exclude one in four Americans from coverage because they don't have bank accounts
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9:31 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. graphic A new study says if corrective action isn't taken, health...
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Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
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1:35 PM
Routine dental care is essential to overall health, but a new poll shows 1.7 million Kentucky adults do not have dental insurance. That is m...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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 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...
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...
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...