Tag: Medicaid
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Bidders to manage Medicaid unknown; contracts July 1?
It is not known who bid on taking over the work, but Kentucky is advancing plans to turn Medicaid over to managed-care organizations. The move, which will allow the organizations...
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U of L physician groups tied to Passport Health Plan must release salary and expense records, attorney general rules
Two groups representing University of Louisville‘s faculty physicians have been deemed public agencies and are subject to open records laws, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled. The groups therefore...
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Cabinet seeks proposals for managed-care Medicaid services
Acting on Gov. Steve Beshear’s promise to moved to managed care for Medicaid recipients in order to lower costs, implemented by the recent special session of the General Assembly, the Cabinet...
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Passport Health Plan drops secrecy as managed care expands
Passport Health Plan, the managed-care organization for Medicaid in the Louisville area, announced today that it would no longer fight to keep its records secret, deciding not to appeal a...
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National poll shows opposition to major cuts in Medicaid
In this year’s legislative sessions, Kentucky lawmakers wrangled to find a solution for a $166.5 million hole in the Medicaid budget. Now Congress is looking at reducing the federal deficit...
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Rural hospitals in Kentucky say health reform will hurt them
Though the new national health-care law may increase the number of insured Americans by 32 million, rural hospitals in Kentucky aren’t expecting a revenue windfall. That’s because half of the...
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Providers recommend restricting 3 cancer drugs in Medicaid
In an effort to save money, health officials are considering a move that would restrict three cancer drugs for the 800,000 Kentuckians who are enrolled in Medicaid. Patients could still...
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Beshear will use line-item veto on Medicaid bill to remove mandatory cuts in other state programs and school funding
Democrats appear to have prevailed in the State Capitol battle over the budget and Medicaid. (Update, March 25: Beshear issued the vetoes.) After the Republican-controlled Senate passed a budget fix...
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Electronic health records are the new frontier in health care
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Just two years ago, the acronym EHR didn’t mean much to many people. But since Congress passed the health-care reform law last year, physicians...
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Near-unanimous House passes Medicaid plan; Senate mum
By an overwhelming margin of 94-4, the state House today passed a bipartisan bill to fix the state Medicaid budget, again putting the ball in the court of the Republicans...