Showing posts with label managed care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label managed care. Show all posts

Hospitals, plagued by bad debt, ask or even require patients with high-deductible insurance plans to pay in advance

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Irene Qdemat of Baptist Health enters patient data. (C-J photo by Alton Strupp) Kentucky hospitals are so plagued by bad debts that they ar...

Millions of children on Medicaid are missing free check-ups; Kentucky is a little below the national average

thumbnail Millions of low-income children across the country aren't getting free preventive exams and screenings guaranteed by Medicaid, and some ...

Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to 'bake in' health reform, managed care, more

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This is the last in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state's embrace of the Patien...

Daytime mental-health programs shrink, citing problems with managed-care Medicaid; pastoral counselors to be licensed

thumbnail Access to daytime mental-health care "is on a steep decline in Kentucky, leaving what some fear is a gap in care that isolates the ment...

As Edelen begins hearings on rural hospitals' finances, state gives figures on Medicaid expansion and reimbursement

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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The expansion of the federal-state Medicaid program funneled $284 million to Kentucky health-care providers...