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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...
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...
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Health care's culture doesn't encourage doctors to report medical errors of colleagues; article says patients should come first
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Doctors are often aware of their colleagues' medical errors, but fail to report them because of ...
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New CEO of Owensboro Health says hospitals are working to improve care, regardless of federal health reform
Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal 'discounts'
Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange
Online health-insurance exchange will differ in several ways from those in other states; scheduled to go online Oct. 1
Eye exams are now required for children ages 3 to 6 when first starting public school or preschool
Add eye exams to your back-to-school checklist, because state law now requires children aged 3 through 6 who are entering a public school or...
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Beshear announces launch of Kynect, the state's new online shop for health insurance; open enrollment starts Oct. 1
Gov. Steve Beshear has announced the launch of Kentucky’s Healthcare Connection , which is referred to as K ynect and is Kentucky's one...
Poll shows more than half of Ky. adults have no dental insurance and many go without essential dental care
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...
Baucus sees a health-reform 'train wreck,' fearing insurance exchanges won't be ready
Poll shows health care costs are a burden for many Kentuckians
A recent statewide survey shows health-care costs are a burden for many Kentuckians, especially for those who are poor and don't have in...
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...
Will Kentucky expand Medicaid, and if so, how?
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Newly formed Kentucky Health Cooperative gets OK to offer plans in state's health insurance exchange
The new Kentucky Health Cooperative 's health-insurance plans have received approval from the state Department of Insurance and will be...
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Legislature eases physician assistant rules; nurse practitioners' prescription power, Medicaid prompt-payment bills, others linger
Kentucky families struggle to care for violent, mentally ill children, and say their plight has been made worse by managed-care firms
Kentucky families struggle to care for violent, mentally ill children, and say their plight has been made worse by managed-care companies th...
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Feds letting Arkansas privatize Medicaid expansion; idea could spread like wildfire, as in Florida, but cost questions remain
Arkansas has turned heads nationally with its preliminary plan to expand Medicaid using the private insurance market, showing that the Obama...
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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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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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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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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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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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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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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
