Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
You go to the emergency room of a hospital, choosing it because it’s in the network of your health insurer. But then you get a big bill because the ER...
Screen shot of “Hazard Ridge” video game Researchers at the University of Kentucky are using a video game to educate young people about the dangers of agriculture, a line of...
Seema Verma (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty) President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate the Indiana consultant who advised Kentucky on its Medicaid waiver request to head the Centers for Medicare...
There was anecdotal evidence after the presidential election of a correlation between counties that swung big to Donald Trump and those with poor health status. The Economist magazine used a...
While major changes in health insurance seem likely as a result of the election, “That doesn’t mean you should avoid signing up for 2017 insurance coverage,” writes Trudy Lieberman of...
Drug overdoses in Northern Kentucky have skyrocketed as the super-potent opioids fentanyl and carfantenil have been added to the heroin supply, Terry DeMio reports for The Cincinnati Enquirer. “In just...
President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to keep requiring health-insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, but knowledgeable observers say that would still require all Americans to buy...
Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan for Medicaid “would have a profound effect in a state with the nation’s third-highest rate of diabetes,” The Courier-Journal reports, because it would remove dental and vision care...
The election of Donald Trump and continued Republican control of Congress have compounded worries about the future of health care for the 440,000 Kentuckians who gained it from the expansion...
Only 10 percent of Americans who abuse painkillers get treatment, so the nation needs to take a different approach to the growing problem of addiction, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said...