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Ky. insurance exchange grows into $39.5M operation
By Roger Alford, Associated Press | February 18, 2013
Federal healthcare reforms have led to the creation of a government agency in Kentucky that will be comparable in staffing to the secretary of state's office with 30 employees but that has scores of contract workers and an annual budget more than 10 times larger at $39.5 million.
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Hanson tapped for CEO post at Baptist Health
By Beth Kutscher | January 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Baptist Health, Louisville, Ky., has named Stephen Hanson president and CEO, effective March 8.
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Regional News/South: Louisiana Gov. Jindal cancels plans to end Medicaid hospice program, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | January 26, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
BATON ROUGE, La.—Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration scrapped plans to shutter Louisiana's Medicaid hospice program in February. Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the reversal as hospice program supporters were gathering for a candlelight vigil on the state...
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OIG finds widespread Herceptin overcharges
By Joe Carlson | January 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited.
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Ky. notifying more than 1,000 Medicaid patients of breach
By Beth Kutscher | December 28, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health and other information for more than 1,000 Kentucky Medicaid beneficiaries may have been compromised as part of a computer scam, the state said Friday.
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National HealthCare acquires six skilled-nursing centers
By Beth Kutscher | December 28, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
National HealthCare Corp., Murfreesboro, Tenn., has bought six skilled-nursing centers from National Health Investors, a healthcare REIT, in a $21 million deal.
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Ky. medical center seeks to join Medicaid suit
By (Louisville) Courier-Journal | December 28, 2012
Another healthcare provider in Eastern Kentucky is alleging that Medicaid company CoventryCares has violated its state contract and underpaid for service claims in an attempt to weed out high-risk—and costly—patients.
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Texas Health Resources names Varga clinical chief
By Maureen McKinney | December 18, 2012
KentuckyOne Health's departing chief clinical officer, Dr. Daniel Varga, has been named CCO and senior executive VP of 14-hospital Texas Health Resources, effective Jan. 14.
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Deadline arrives for state-run exchange plans | CMS gives conditional nod to Ky., N.Y., D.C.
By Rich Daly | December 14, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Kentucky, New York and Washington, D.C., received conditional approval Friday to run their own health insurance exchanges, which means at least eight states and the nation's capital will launch their own such marketplaces in 2014.
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Regional News/South: CHI deal revived in Kentucky | University of Louisville Hospital to join partnership
By Ashok Selvam | November 17, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Ten months after Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear threw cold water on the University of Louisville Hospital's plans to be part of a three-way merger with two affiliates of Catholic Health Initiatives, the governor appeared at a news conference announcing that an extensive process of requesting and...
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