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Ky. health officials seek to stop trend of elective deliveries
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Because babies fare better when they are carried to term, Kentucky health officials are attacking the trend of elective deliveries and pushing for "hard stop" policies allowing early induction or C-section only when medically necessary. About 18
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Panel OKs second bill to resolve Medicaid disputes
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Ky. (AP) Two bills gained traction in the Legislature Wednesday that would address millions of dollars in Medicaid disputes between hospitals and the organizations that provide reimbursements. Each proposal takes a different approach to an issue that
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Money spent on lobbying in 2012 breaks Kentucky record
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 12 months ago
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Business interests and advocacy groups spent $8.8 million lobbying the Kentucky legislature in 2012, a new record. The money spent by lobbyists and their employers to influence legislation during the 2012 General Assembly, which concluded in April,
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Beshear waiting on court ruling before creating health insurance exchange
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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A constitutional amendment that would allow casino gambling in Kentucky won approval Wednesday from the Senate State and Local Government Committee...Supreme Court rules on President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act before issuing an executive
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Drug industry has spent $194,000 on lobbying in Kentucky
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Ky. (AP) A group representing the pharmaceutical industry spent more than $194,000 last month on lobbying legislators to try to kill a bill requiring a prescription for cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient for
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Health care providers say Medicaid managed care riddled with problems
Louisville :: KY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The baby was coming, no matter what a managed care company had to say. A pregnant woman came to one of Appalachian Regional Healthcare's eight Kentucky hospitals already in labor before Christmas. But the hospital was told by one of three managed
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State delays implementation of Medicaid overhaul until Nov. 1
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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After hearing concerns from Kentucky hospitals, the state announced this week that it will delay implementing a massive overhaul of the state's Medicaid program until Nov. 1. The state announced in July it was hiring three companies to manage care
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County won't keep big windfall
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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Morgan Securities LLC has been ordered by a federal court to pay Henderson County $224,119 but Judge-executive Hugh McCormick said the county will probably pass on the offer...Morgan Securities without admitting or denying the allegations of the
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Mothers, sick babies need more Ky. care
Cincinnati :: OH :: USA | 2 years ago
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The problem is that the newspaper supported the very side that would do the least to help Kentucky mothers and their babies...Elizabeth Healthcare, headquartered in Northern Kentucky, is seeking state approval to offer Level III (a) neonatal
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Providers say Medicaid cuts would be 'devastating' to them and patients
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 2 years ago
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The state's hospitals, doctors and pharmacies are bracing for a possible 35 percent cut in Medicaid reimbursement rates if legislators can't agree next week on how to fix a shortfall in the program's budget. On Friday, the Cabinet for Health and
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