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Norton Healthcare makes more families eligible for financial aid

Norton Healthcare, which has five hospitals in Louisville and is building another, it making more families eligible for its financial assistance program, raising the income limit from 300% of the...

By Heather Close Published February 3, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Dollar General gets into health care with three mobile clinics near southwestern Kentucky, says it will expand if successful

Dollar General Corp., a Scottsville, Kentucky-born company that moved its headquarters to suburban Nashville but has become ubiquitous across the commonwealth, has expanded into health care. The retailer has established...

By Heather Close Published February 1, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, YOUR HEALTH

Feds let health insurers that overcharged for Medicare Advantage plans keep the hundreds of millions in excess profits from 2011-17

By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News Health-insurance companies that sell Medicare Advantage to seniors dodged a major financial bullet Monday, as federal officials gave them a reprieve for returning hundreds...

By Heather Close Published February 1, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Big health-insurance company and major health-care foundation among lead investors in Invest Appalachia venture-capital fund

Kentucky Health News Two big players in health care are the major financiers of a venture-capital firm that calls itself “a regional social investment platform” for Eastern Kentucky and most...

By Heather Close Published January 30, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

CDC: Only 5 Ky. counties have high risk from coronavirus; FDA panel recommends one annual Covid-19 vaccination for everyone

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Only five Kentucky counties, all but one along the Virginia border, have a high level of Covid-19 risk, according to the latest weekly map...

By Heather Close Published January 30, 2023 CORONAVIRUS, DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Ky. Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission subcommittees consider five grant applications, with only two getting a yes vote

Story and photo by Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two of the three Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission subcommittees reviewed five grant applications asking for funds to fight the opioid...

By Heather Close Published January 30, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Doctors will no longer have to take special training to prescribe opioid that is used to treat addiction but is short of prescribers

The federal government has lifted extra requirements for doctors who want to prescribe buprenorphine, a partial opioid that is used to help drug users beat addiction. That will be a...

By Heather Close Published January 30, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Governor wants firm guidelines on how to spend opioid settlement money, now up to $842 million; Cameron appointee says no

This has been updated. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s local and state governments continue to reap more millions from settlements with drug manufacturers and distributors, and are...

By Heather Close Published January 25, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Spending reports by health-care lobbying interests reflect their success at having their way in the Kentucky General Assembly

Kentucky Health News Seven of the top eight spenders on lobbying the General Assembly last year had health-care issues in play. Most of the seven were mainly focused on health...

By Heather Close Published January 25, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Healthgrades recognizes 3 Ky. hospitals as among America’s best

Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington was the only Kentucky hospital included in the list of “America’s 100 Best Hospitals” by Healthgrades, an online source for information about physicians and hospitals....

By Heather Close Published January 25, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, YOUR HEALTH

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