Kentucky Medicaid officials have suspended collection of co-payments by patients in managed care, a change they had ordered at the start of July. “The co-pays caught health providers by surprise...
Kentucky’s Andy Beshear is one of 12 Democratic attorneys general suing the federal government over its new rules allowing “association health plans,” a product long advocated by Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul...
The Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center at Morehead won the Center of Excellence Award in Distribution at this month’s national AHEC conference for working to improve the health-care workforce in rural...
Attorney General Andy Beshear filed suit July 12 against Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, charging the firm with knowingly misrepresenting the addictive nature of its drugs. The lawsuit in Madison Circuit Court alleges that the company...
A Lexington restaurant was recently profiled in The New York Times for its efforts in giving people in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction a second chance. DV8 Kitchen opened last September and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department of Insurance has issued a $1.5 million fine to a subsidiary of CVS Caremark — a pharmacy benefit manager for all but one of the...
The two health insurers offering government-subsidized health plans in Kentucky’s individual market for 2019 are both requesting an overall rate hike, the most popular one seeking increases averaging 3.5 percent...
The Medical Center at Bowling Green no longer releases information about births to the news media or through social media, following recommendations from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “This is...
Pikeville Medical Center, Eastern Kentucky’s largest hospital, is cutting its workforce to correct what CEO Donovan Blackburn called “poor business decisions” by his predecessor, Walter May. “The news comes a...
“Kentucky’s two biggest hospital systems had some of the country’s highest instances of an often deadly bacterial bloodstream infection known as MRSA” in the fiscal year that ended June 30,...