Health-insurance premiums for 2017 will be more expensive
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...
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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...
It’s not too late to sign up for the 14th annual Howard L. Bost Health Policy Forum, titled “Health as an Economic Driver,” to be held at the Marriott Griffin...
Taxpayers paid nearly $385 million in 2015 for emergency-room visits for Medicaid patients, $9.3 million for cases that were judged not to be emergencies, according to state data gathered by...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has the highest rate of hepatitis C infection in the nation, and many who have it don’t know they are infected and could...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky has received a $2.8 million competitive grant to establish a Rural Health Research Center that will focus on access to...
Gov. Matt Bevin By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News While Republican Gov. Matt Bevin works on his proposal to reform his Democratic predecessor’s expansion of Medicaid, the Indiana program that...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The cost of in-home, long-term care in Kentucky is less than it was a year ago, an insurance company study says. That should come...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A health-care advocacy group says the redesign of the Medicaid program should build on the expansion of eligibility and not include any more costs...
Illustration from University of California-San Francisco By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If Kentucky could cut its smoking rate to the national average, it would save an estimated $1.7 billion...