PBS NewsHour looks at Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion, governor’s plans to change it and his predecessor’s reaction
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Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky was one of the states helped most by the health reform law’s requirement that people with pre-existing conditions could get insurance – a...
A registered nurse who has been Northern Kentucky director for the state Office of Drug Control Policy is among the newly elected Republicans who now rule the state House. Kim...
Kentucky’s expanded Medicaid program covered approximately 11,000 substance-use treatment services in the second quarter of 2016, a huge increase from the 1,500 services from January through March 2014, the first...
A community awareness campaign in Eastern Kentucky about a low-dose CT scan that detects lung cancer early has increased uptake of the procedure and prompted individuals to consider quitting tobacco,...
Kentucky had the largest drop in low-income, working-age people without health insurance, and the biggest decline in adults who passed up medical care due to cost, after the state embraced...
Gov. Matt Bevin Gov. Matt Bevin said his proposed changes in the Medicaid program have a better chance of getting federal approval because Donald Trump has been elected president. “Do...
Kentuckians covered by Medicaid through its expansion in 2014 are using their preventive screening benefits more than the traditional Medicaid population, according to a report done for the Foundation for...
Medicaid covered almost 636,000 adult Kentuckians in the second quarter of this year, with the great majority of enrollees covered under Medicaid expansion and almost half of them young adults,...
The election of Donald Trump and continued Republican control of Congress have compounded worries about the future of health care for the 440,000 Kentuckians who gained it from the expansion...