Health Insurance Open Enrollment Delayed for MSU Employees
Murray State University employees will have to wait a little longer in order to sign up for open enrollment for their health plans.
View ArticlePoll: Three in Ten Kentucky Adults Went Without Health Insurance in 2013
An annual statewide poll shows that one-quarter of Kentucky adults are without health insurance. The Kentucky Health Issues Poll is funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. That group's...
View ArticleRegion Sees Budget Cuts to Health Departments
Health Departments in the region are preparing to deal with a $6 million cut from state block grant funding.
View ArticleRural Health Care Gets National Funding Boost for Telemedicine, Education...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is issuing a round of funding for several health care and education projects in Kentucky, Tennessee and southern Illinois to celebrate National Rural Health Day. On a...
View ArticleTennessee Gov. Haslam Rolls Out Health Care Plan
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is rolling out his new program to provide health care coverage to Tennesseeans currently uninsured or who have limited options.
View ArticleHaslam Calls Special Session to Discuss, Vote on Tennessee's Expanded...
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has called a special legislative session for next month to tackle his alternative to expanded Medicaid. The two-year pilot program called “insure Tennessee” would provide...
View ArticleKentucky Hospitals Seek To Lower Costs With New Collaborative
Just weeks after Gov. Matt Bevin confirmed he would seek to dismantle Kentucky’s health insurance exchange and roll back the state’s expanded Medicaid system, 10 hospitals in the commonwealth announced...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Consider Whether To Let Physician Assistants Prescribe Drugs
As a shortage of primary care physicians looms across the nation and Kentucky, state lawmakers are considering whether to expand the role of physician assistants by allowing them to prescribe...
View ArticleBreathe Easier: New Smartphone App Could Help COPD Patients
Kentucky has the nation’s highest rate of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. But managing the disease and interpreting symptoms is often a challenge for people who suffer from...
View ArticleLeague of Women Voters Forum On Health Care And Why It’s So Complicated
The Hopkinsville-Christian County League Of Women Voters held a forum this week with health care experts from different backgrounds to tackle why health costs are rising in the U.S.
View ArticleAt This Driver’s Ed Class, Kentuckians With Developmental Disabilities Learn...
Josh Maupin was excited for driver’s ed class. The 27-year-old was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, a developmental disability that means he has to take more time to learn and process concepts. He...
View ArticleSure, There's A Health Care Deal. That Doesn't Mean It Can Pass
Updated at 3:55 p.m. ET A bipartisan coalition of 24 senators — 12 Republicans and 12 Democrats — has signed on to health care legislation to prop up the individual insurance market and keep premiums...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage
It has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act , with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care...
View ArticleStates Sound Warning That Kids' Health Insurance Is At Risk
This week, Colorado became the first state to notify families that children who receive health insurance through the Children's Health Insurance Program are in danger of losing their coverage. Nearly 9...
View ArticleBaptist Health To Accept CareSource Health Plans In Kentucky
Baptist Health providers will soon accept CareSource insurance offered on Healthcare.gov. That’s because starting in 2018, CareSource will be the only health insurance choice for half of the counties...
View ArticleKentuckians Have A Week To Sign Up For Coverage On Healthcare.gov
Kentuckians have one more week to sign up for health insurance on Healthcare.gov. As of Dec. 6, about 36,000 people in the state had signed up, that’s about 44 percent of the people enrolled for 2017....
View ArticleTrump’s First Year Leaves Obamacare on Life Support in Ohio Valley
Remember the American Health Care Act, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, or the Obamacare Repeal and Reconciliation Act? They were among the many Congressional proposals to end the Affordable Care...
View ArticleUnder Trump Proposal, Some Will Switch From Food Money To Food Box
On Monday, President Donald Trump released his proposed annual budget , which is a vision for what he wants to see spent and not spent this year. One major change would be to federal funding for food...
View ArticleKentucky Nurse Practitioners Push For More Prescribing Power
Kentucky nurse practitioners want the authority prescribe controlled substances — like opioids — without physician oversight. A House committee next week is likely to consider a new measure that could...
View ArticleBevin Official Tells Congress Kentucky’s New Medicaid System Will Be Streamlined
A top advisor for Gov. Matt Bevin is revealing details on the new system that will help Medicaid enrollees track and meet almost all of Kentucky’s new requirements rolling out in July.
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