School nurses start getting scarcer, due to Medicaid problems
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Students in many Kentucky counties will find it harder to see a school nurse due to changes in the state Medicaid program and lack...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Students in many Kentucky counties will find it harder to see a school nurse due to changes in the state Medicaid program and lack...
The financial struggle that recently led to 14 layoffs and an increase in furlough days for the Cumberland Valley District Health Department continues. Other health departments have reported such difficulties, but...
Kentucky Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, left, said yesterday that she would file legislation that would block Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear from setting up a health-insurance...
All the talk about “Obamacare” may have obscured Kentucky’s biggest health-care story, Kendra Peek of The Advocate-Messenger in Danville suggests, in a look at Kentucky’s troublesome shift to managed-care Medicaid....
The core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is helping people get health insurance, beginning next year. That will be relatively simple for some people, but complicated for...
A Lexington-area network of doctors says it will no longer contract with Coventry Cares, a Medicaid managed-care company, after Coventry said “it would begin to pay less than the established...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above...
When Dr. Jeremy Corbett of Lexington found that “nearly one in five pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid managed-care program where he works were using narcotics or other harmful drugs,” he...
Republican lawmakers reitarated this week that the companies managing Medcaid in Kentucky are still not paying health providers promptly. According to Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, in the year since the...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some Medicaid case managers’ lives have been threatened because they have tried to get Medicaid patients to go to primary-care doctors instead of emergency...