Baptist Health Plan is withdrawing from the individual health insurance market in Kentucky for 2017, according to a state Department of Insurance news release. Baptist is the state’s fourth largest...
An ongoing report of federal health reform’s effect on Kentucky says hospitals have significantly less charity care and care to the uninsured than they did before the reform was implemented....
The share of Kentuckians without health insurance dropped by more than half from 2013 to 2015, bringing it down to only 6 percent of the state’s population, from 14.3 percent, according...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rejected Ohio’s new Medicaid plan Friday, saying it could lead to the state’s low-income people losing health...
Base chart from Insider Louisville Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky will be the only health insurer offering coverage for next year to Kentuckians on the government exchange in 54 counties. That...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin has joined a lawsuit that challenges a federal rule guaranteeing transgender people equal treatment by insurers and medical providers. “Not only...
Aetna Inc. will stop selling federally subsidized health-insurance policies in Kentucky and 10 other states, remaining only in Virginia, Delaware, Iowa and Nebraska, it said Aug. 15. The company is...
A survey of people in Kentucky and other states suggests that the 2014 expansion of the Medicaid program under federal health reform is making them healthier. The telephone survey of...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The 300,000 Kentuckians who still lacked health coverage at the end of 2015 were more likely to be working but earning low pay. They were...
The state Department of Insurance has largely approved the rate increases that health-insurance companies requested for individual and small-group plans that will be sold through the federal health-insurance exchange for...