Kentucky receives $57.9 million to set up insurance exchange
Kentucky received $57.9 million Wednesday to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace — though lawmakers have made no move to make that happen. Kentucky is one of...
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Kentucky received $57.9 million Wednesday to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace — though lawmakers have made no move to make that happen. Kentucky is one of...
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at...
Last week, a document leaked showing Walmart‘s intention to become the country’s largest provider of primary health services, but the company’s interest is not unique. Drug retailers like CVS Caremark...
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. — Confusion, primary care doctors overwhelmed by an influx of new patients, and employers opting to pay fines rather than health insurance are...
Hospitals are banding together to create organizations better able to withstand the changing tides of the economy and health-care policy. The proposed merger of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s...
In a debate where most of the sparks flew over often-specious questions about conflicts of interest, one of the biggest substantive disagreements between the candidates for attorney general Monday night...
Speaking about President Obama’s proposed cuts to rural health care Wednesday, Susan Starling was frank about her feelings: “As a CEO of a critical access hospital, I’m very nervous. What...
As 27 states, including Kentucky, bide their time in setting up a health care exchange — a key component of the federal health-reform law — Ohio officials have said setting...
With one expert calling it “merger mania,” Robert Hadley of The Lane Report looks at how Kentucky hospitals and hospital systems are banding together as they brace for reimbursement changes...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News After hearing experts say communities should take the lead in improving the quality of health care and lowering its cost — especially because there...