Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, something they can do in every other state beginning in...
University of Kentucky video Leaders of the National Institutes of Health spent Thursday in Hazard with Fifth District U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers and local health leaders to examine efforts...
Baptist Health Plan pulled out of Kentucky’s insurance exchange because it attracted too many healthy customers and thus drew a federal penalty, Boris Ladwig reports for Insider Louisville. “The narrative...
Commonwealth Fund graphic: People who visited marketplaces, but didn’t enroll About 2.5 million Americans are overpaying for health insurance because they don’t use the government exchanges or marketplaces that provide...
McConnell with other GOP Senate leaders, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas (Getty Images photo by Alex Wong) Congress has finally appropriated $1.1 billion to fight the...
By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service Recently I got a note from a reader of these columns who lives in Warren, Ohio. He had seen conflicting reports about next...
Humana Inc.‘s proposed takeover by Aetna Inc. would hurt health-insurance competition in 57 metropolitan areas in 15 states, especially Kentucky and Georgia, says an analysis by the American Medical Association....
KentuckyOne Health laid off several top executives Sept. 16, the latest sign of trouble at the hospital company created by mergers four years ago. Andrew Wolfson of The Courier-Journal called...
“If you’re putting a needle in your arm, you’re playing Russian roulette,” because so many super-powerful narcotics such as fentanyl are in the illegal drug trade, Dr. Eric Guerrant, emergency...
As the coal industry declines, rapidly in Central Appalachia, there are “clues suggesting that health and mental-health issues will pose enormous challenges to the affected coal communities, and will linger...