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Kentuckians nearing release from prison or juvenile detention in line for Medicaid coverage
Kentucky is one of five additional states that will soon provide Medicaid health coverage for people nearing release from prison or juvenile detention, according to the U.S. Department of...
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Kentucky lawyer climbed out of alcoholism, launched a recovery boom
LOUISA — Around the office at Addiction Recovery Care, or ARC, Vanessa Keeton is still known as “Client One” — marking her status as the first client of the...
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Molina Healthcare donates site for Jefferson County’s first new middle school in 90 years
A new middle school is planned for a long-vacant site in West Louisville where Passport Health, the state’s first Medicaid managed care company once hoped to build its corporate...
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U.S. Sen. Katie Britt introduces bill to end a state’s Medicaid funding if it blocks IVF
WASHINGTON — Two Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to try to prevent states from banning in vitro fertilization, months after the Alabama state Supreme Court upended access to...
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Kentucky nursing-home industry says Biden staffing mandate ‘impossible’ to meet
The nursing-home industry is pushing back against a new Biden administration rule that sets minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities and will require many of them...
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More Kentucky children have kept Medicaid coverage compared with other states
Kentucky is among a handful of states that lost only a small percentage of children from its Medicaid program in 2023 even as the number of kids cut from...
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Bills to become law on vaping, pharmacy reform, vaccinations, drugs, at-home blood testing, coverage of cancer screening, more
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
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Bills to become law on vaping, pharmacy reform, vaccinations, drugs, at-home blood testing, coverage of cancer screening, more
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
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Guthrie warns making telehealth expansion permanent must be paid for; costs unsure, but projected to be several billion dollars
Kentucky Health NewsIf telehealth services are to remain expanded as they were in the pandemic, Congress must offset the cost, U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green said in...
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Republicans talk about making Obamacare better, not repealing it, so it is ‘becoming a politically untouchable part’ of the safety net
Washington Post graph from Kaiser Family Foundation polling data Kentucky Health News“A law once derided as ‘Obamacare’ and demonized as a big-government power grab is becoming a politically untouchable...