Dr. Michael Karpf to retire as head of UK hospital
Dr. Michael Karpf Dr. Michael Karpf, who has led the University of Kentucky Medical Center during a decade of major growth, announced Wednesday that he would retire in 2017. At...
Author: Al Cross
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Almost half of Ky. counties will have only one insurer to choose from on government exchange; open enrollment begins Nov. 1
Base chart from Insider Louisville Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky will be the only health insurer offering coverage for next year to Kentuckians on the government exchange in 54 counties. That...
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CDC doesn’t deliver on reported promise to probe health effects of surface coal mining, but two other federal agencies are tackling it
When Shaping Our Appalachian Region was formed to help improve and diversify the economy of Appalachian Kentucky, one of the 10 working groups on issues was about health, which is...
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Attorney general, stiffed again by UK’s refusal to let it examine heart-clinic records, says university violated Open Records Act
Attorney General Andy Beshear has ruled that the University of Kentucky violated the state Open Records Act by not giving the Lexington Herald-Leader records about a Hazard heart clinic that...
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State health officials warn of looming ‘public health crisis from dangerous drugs,’ including heroin laced with potent Fentanyl
Kentucky health officials are warning that a “public health crisis involving dangerous drugs” looms over the state, and could hit this weekend, the Department for Public Health said in a...
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State Supreme Court rejects Lexington abortion clinic’s bid to remain open while it challenges Court of Appeals ruling closing it
The only abortion clinic in the eastern half of Kentucky will remain closed while it appeals the state’s closure of it to the state Supreme Court. The court denied a...
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Drug prices keep rising, with no end in sight
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Recently a tweet from Lauren Sausser, a fine health reporter I know in South Carolina, caught my eye. “Crazy drug prices became personal....
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Former director of UK medical foundation says it’s ‘gone beyond its scope’ but UK officials say it’s helped them do much good
A foundation that the University of Kentucky created to supplement pay for physicians has “gone beyond its scope,” its former director told the Lexington Herald-Leader for a long story examining...
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Nonprofit groups question Bevin’s plan to require ‘volunteer’ work from able-bodied adults who aren’t primary caregivers
Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to require volunteer work from unemployed, able-bodied Medicaid members isn’t sitting well with the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, which represents nearly 600 of the state’s nonprofit groups,...
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Aetna to quit selling Ky. Obamacare policies; affects 10 counties in 3 major metros; may relate to feds’ suit to block Humana deal
Aetna Inc. will stop selling federally subsidized health-insurance policies in Kentucky and 10 other states, remaining only in Virginia, Delaware, Iowa and Nebraska, it said Aug. 15. The company is...