Auditor will hold meetings in Prestonsburg, Princeton and Sonerset to discuss his report on financial status of rural hospitals

Auditor will hold meetings in Prestonsburg, Princeton and Sonerset to discuss his report on financial status of rural hospitals

Unknown 7:33 PM Affordable Care Act, health reform, indigent care, managed care, Medicaid, Medicare, obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, rural hospitals, state government

State Auditor Adam Edelen will hold three public meetings in rural communities to discuss the findings of his  special report about the fin...

Plight of woman needing lung transplant, who has fallen through the cracks of the health-care system, gets attention from CNN

Plight of woman needing lung transplant, who has fallen through the cracks of the health-care system, gets attention from CNN

Unknown 7:12 PM health care access, lung disease, lung transplant, Medicaid, Medicare

Update: CNN reports that Kentucky issued a Medicaid provider number to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the hospital confirm...

Doctors don't tell most patients or caregivers about a diagnosis of Alzheimer's until the disease advances, advocacy group says

Doctors don't tell most patients or caregivers about a diagnosis of Alzheimer's until the disease advances, advocacy group says

Unknown 8:06 PM Alzheimer's disease, health costs, Medicaid, Medicare, research, women's health

Every 67 seconds someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer’s disease and most don't find out they have it until their disease becomes more ...

Up to 1/3 of rural hospitals in poor financial shape, auditor finds, calling report a baseline for local decisions that could be tough

Up to 1/3 of rural hospitals in poor financial shape, auditor finds, calling report a baseline for local decisions that could be tough

Unknown 5:34 PM health reform, hospitals, managed care, Medicaid, Medicare, obamacare, state government

By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News For a video of Edelen's press conference, click here . For a cn|2 report with vide...

Woman needing lung transplant falls through cracks of health-care system, says she's treated as nothing more than a 'price tag'

Woman needing lung transplant falls through cracks of health-care system, says she's treated as nothing more than a 'price tag'

Unknown 9:57 AM health insurance, lung disease, lung transplant, Medicaid, Medicare

Katie Prager, a 24-year-old cystic fibrosis patient from Ewing in Fleming County, needs a lung transplant, but has been denied one because s...

Study suggests there's too much imaging of low-risk prostate- and breast-cancer patients in the Evansville and Louisville areas

Study suggests there's too much imaging of low-risk prostate- and breast-cancer patients in the Evansville and Louisville areas

Unknown 4:14 PM breast cancer, cancer, diagnostic imaging, hospitals, Medicare, prostate cancer, research

Hospitals and doctors in the Evansville and Louisville areas may be doing too much medical imaging on patients with low-risk prostate or bre...

Former smokers get newly funded scan for lung cancer and encourage others to do the same, after finding cancer in time

Former smokers get newly funded scan for lung cancer and encourage others to do the same, after finding cancer in time

Unknown 12:56 PM cancer screening, federal spending, lung cancer, Medicare, smoking, tobacco

The number of smokers choosing to get low-dose CT scans to see if they have lung cancer is steadily increasing, especially since this screen...

Economic upturn boosts share of Kentuckians on employer-based health coverage; health reform boosts number on public plans

Economic upturn boosts share of Kentuckians on employer-based health coverage; health reform boosts number on public plans

Unknown 5:49 AM health insurance, health reform, insurance coverage, Medicaid, Medicare, poll, polls

Half of Kentucky's working-age adults now get health insurance through their employers, up from 37 percent two years ago, reversing a do...

Medicare to pay for CT scans of people at high risk of lung cancer

Medicare to pay for CT scans of people at high risk of lung cancer

Unknown 7:35 AM cancer, cancer screening, lung cancer, Medicare, prevention

Medicare will now pay for low-dose CT scans for people at high risk of getting lung cancer, a change welcomed by officials in Kentucky, whic...

Panel OKs new medical-order form that would clearly define a person's end-of-life wishes on nutrition, hydration, medication

Panel OKs new medical-order form that would clearly define a person's end-of-life wishes on nutrition, hydration, medication

Unknown 4:42 PM end-of-life care, General Assembly, hospice, legislation, legislature, Medicare, state government

A bill to create a medical order form that details a person's wishes for end-of-life care passed the Senate Health and Welfare Committee...

Health care changes are driven by more than reform law; Beshear says patients need rewards for changing their behavior

Health care changes are driven by more than reform law; Beshear says patients need rewards for changing their behavior

Unknown 12:39 PM health insurance, health reform, hospitals, Medicaid, Medicare, rural health, rural medicine, state government

"Your doctor's visits might get longer, you deductibles probably will be higher and you might be paying cash to be treated at a Wa...

Medicare starts to overhaul the way it pays providers, rewarding them for quality, penalizing them for shortcomings

Medicare starts to overhaul the way it pays providers, rewarding them for quality, penalizing them for shortcomings

Unknown 1:50 PM accountability, accountable care organizations, doctors, federal government, health care industry, health care reform, health insurance, hospitals, Medicare

By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration on Monday set a timeline for historic changes in how it pays doctors, hospit...

Elizabethtown doctors who paid millions to settle claims of bill-padding are sued by chemotherapy patients

Elizabethtown doctors who paid millions to settle claims of bill-padding are sued by chemotherapy patients

Unknown 7:45 AM chemotherapy, courts, Medicaid, Medicare

"Eight former patients or their estates have sued the Elizabethtown cancer doctors who paid the government $3.7 million last June to s...

Only 1/4 of estimated number eligible for subsidized, private health insurance through Kynect have signed up for it

Only 1/4 of estimated number eligible for subsidized, private health insurance through Kynect have signed up for it

Unknown 7:22 AM health insurance, health reform, insurance exchange, Kynect, Medicare

While 85,000 people are covered by private health plans through Kynect , that's only one-fourth of the 340,000 that state officials esti...

Kentucky Health Cooperative, largest private provider on state insurance exchange, gets $65 million loan to keep going

Kentucky Health Cooperative, largest private provider on state insurance exchange, gets $65 million loan to keep going

Unknown 10:19 AM federal government, health insurance, Kynect, Medicaid, Medicare

The Kentucky Health Cooperative , a non-profit, consumer-governed health insurance company, received a $65 million federal loan last month t...

Ky. ranks 8th in the number of high-prescribing Medicare physicians for powerful narcotic painkillers and stimulants

Ky. ranks 8th in the number of high-prescribing Medicare physicians for powerful narcotic painkillers and stimulants

Unknown 10:26 AM Medicare, physicians, prescription drug abuse

Kentucky ranks eighth in Medicare physicians who are considered "high prescribers" of Schedule 2 medications, drugs that have the ...

St. Joseph London, doctors and others win the first of a dozen trials over allegations of unnecessary procedures at hospital

St. Joseph London, doctors and others win the first of a dozen trials over allegations of unnecessary procedures at hospital

Unknown 1:26 PM courts, doctors, hospitals, malpractice, Medicaid, Medicare

A jury has decided for the St. Joseph London hospital, several of its doctors and other defendants in a lawsuit that accused them of conspi...

Medicare plans to pay for lung-cancer screening, a boon to Ky.

Medicare plans to pay for lung-cancer screening, a boon to Ky.

Unknown 12:29 PM cancer, cancer screening, lung cancer, Medicare, prevention

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  plan to start paying for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans for people at high ris...

Nine hospitals in Kentucky get maximum Medicare penalty for readmissions; they blame socioeconomic factors

Nine hospitals in Kentucky get maximum Medicare penalty for readmissions; they blame socioeconomic factors

Unknown 1:12 PM Appalachia, hospitals, Medicare, rural health

Article updated 10/20/2014 Nine hospitals in Kentucky, eight of them in Appalachia, have been hit with the highest penalty possible by Medic...

Medicare ratings for nursing homes rely heavily on self-reported data; recent inspection data are available elsewhere

Medicare ratings for nursing homes rely heavily on self-reported data; recent inspection data are available elsewhere

Unknown 11:22 AM health journalism, journalism, Medicare, nursing homes, open government, open records

Next time you look at Medicare's ratings for nursing homes, be aware that most of the information used to make the ranking is based on s...