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GUEST COLUMN: Medicaid rewards lackluster service
Henderson :: KY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Harrison, MD Special to The Gleaner Posted March 10, 2013 at 12:01 a.m. Pop singer Prince had a hit song over 20 years ago that said we should all party like it's 1999. Unfortunately, the managed care organizations running the Kentucky Medicaid
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New regulations for law dealing with prescription drug abuse move forward
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 5 months ago
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A legislative review panel signed off on several new regulations Monday that govern the implementation of a controversial 2012 law to tackle Kentucky's prescription drug abuse problem. The regulations for the so-called "pill mill bill" dealt with a
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Urine tests required by new drug law costing some patients hundreds of dollars
Lexington :: KY :: USA | 9 months ago
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To curb prescription drug abuse, Kentucky started in July requiring people with long-term prescriptions for controlled substances to submit to urine testing. The tests determine if patients take their drugs, rather than sell them, and if other,
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Kentucky doctor is the AMA's new president-elect
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 12 months ago
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An internal medicine doctor from Kentucky is the American Medical Association's new president-elect. The nation's largest physicians group says Dr. Ardis Hoven will take office as president-elect in June 2013. She'll become the
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Money spent on lobbying in 2012 breaks Kentucky record
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 1 year 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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States crack down on prescription-drug doctor shopping
Paducah :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Nearly 1,000 people in the state died from prescription drug overdoses in 2010, or about three a day, ranking it among the top states for such deaths. In America as a whole, about 12 million people aged 12 and older reported non-medical use of
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Ky. doctors must join pill abuse fight
Louisville :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Its a personal crisis for tens of thousands, its a plague for thousands of families, its a drain on law enforcement at every level, its an expense for employers and government...Some drug dependency arises when people treat symptoms with pain
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Legislators approve pseudoephedrine, other bills; some left undone
Beirut :: Lebanon | 1 year ago
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The Senate left some issues to be worked out until the final day, which will be April 12...Friday with only one more day April 12 left in this year's legislative session and plenty of work left to be done. The House and Senate managed on the 59th day
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Competing proposals to regulate pain clinics advance in House and Senate
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Differing proposals to regulate pain clinics in Kentucky wound their way through the House and Senate on Thursday, but leaders of both chambers predicted they will strike a compromise to tackle the scourge of prescription drug abuse. An average of 82
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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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