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Stephanie Mayfield Gibson Former state health commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson has joined the leadership team of KentuckyOne Health to coordinate its population health initiatives, according to a KentuckyOne Health news release....
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is forcing doctors and hospitals to collaborate on lowering health-care costs while improving health outcomes. Community health groups that focus on preventive care...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration on Monday set a timeline for historic changes in how it pays doctors, hospitals and other health providers under Medicare, shifting...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month about the federal health care-reform law, and is expected to decide the law’s future this summer. While the...
At the beginning of the new year, family doctors started facing a 1 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement if they hadn’t nixed their paper-based prescription pads in favor of an...
The “accountable care organization” is one of the hallmarks of the federal health-care reform law, with doctors and providers encouraged to team up to give coordinated care and be paid...
Critical-access hospitals, physician-owned organizations and rural health-care providers are now eligible for federal funds that will help them implement necessary infrastructure and information-technology systems, the U.S. Department of Health and...