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Haynes asks hospitals for a truce as they and state work through problems with managed-care Medicaid

Posted by | 8:44 PM
Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes won a smattering of applause from Kentucky hospital officials Thursday as she called for ...

Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday

Posted by | 8:39 PM
What will it take for Kentucky to become a healthier state? That will be the question at the fall meeting of the Friedell Committee for Heal...

Beshear says his managed-care plan is saving money and improving health outcomes; state points finger at hospitals

Posted by | 1:45 PM
Six months ago, Gov. Steve Beshear applied an intensive plan to solve Medicaid managed-care implementation issues. On Thursday, he said the ...

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...

Auditor Edelen says Medicaid providers 8 percent fewer under managed care; cabinet says report is limited, outdated

Posted by | 8:38 AM
The number of people relaying on Medicaid will increase dramatically in 2014, as Kentucky expands it to include people with incomes up to 1...

School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues

Posted by | 11:33 AM
School districts in Kentucky have long relied on county health departments for school nurses, but state budget cuts and problems with Medica...

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...

Rushed transition to managed care is cautionary tale for other states, especially those with large rural populations

Posted by | 11:59 AM
Since Kentucky's abrupt change to a Medicaid managed-care system in 2011, problems have been widespread among patients and providers, hi...

Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states picked for national institute

Posted by | 10:48 AM
State Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner is one of seven state program directors to participate in the year-long Medicaid Leadership Ins...

Kentucky Spirit leaves the state; cabinet assigns company's clients to other Medicaid managed-care firms

Posted by | 9:49 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 125,000 Medicaid patients in Kentucky have a new insurance company, with Saturday's departu...

Judge refuses to stop Kentucky Spirit from leaving the state, saying health cabinet has had plenty of time to prepare

Posted by | 3:10 PM
A Kentucky Court of Appeals judge refused on Monday to stop Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit from leaving the state on Friday, Ju...

Kentucky Spirit still plans to leave state July 5; judge rules that state can't require company to stay for two-month transition

Posted by | 3:45 PM
In the latest development in the saga of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit , ...

The school health services gamble: Ky. health departments could win on the state's bet against Kentucky Spirit's appeal of ruling

Posted by | 2:15 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s health departments may soon get money for school nurses, based on a court ruling in May th...

Kentucky Spirit appeals court ruling that it can't quit Kentucky early

Posted by | 3:46 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Centene Corp.  announced Monday that it has appealed the Franklin Circuit Court ruling in May that sa...

State officials tell health-care providers to meet with managed-care companies to get paid, say new system is improving health

Posted by | 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 ...

Kentucky Spirit can't terminate its Medicaid contract with the state a year early without facing fines, judge rules

Posted by | 2:20 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A Frankfort circuit judge ruled Friday that Kentucky Spirit, one of three companies hired by the st...

Judge orders Medicaid managed-care firm to pay for school health services, including $8 million in claims; appeal possible

Posted by | 1:47 PM
Medicaid managed care company Kentucky Spiri t must cover preventive care services provided by local health departments in schools, a judge ...

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...