Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states pulled out in support of countrywide institute

Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states pulled out in support of countrywide institute

State Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner is single of seven state train directors to participate in the year-long Medicaid Leadership Institute, which Gov. Steve Beshear thought will help Kissner's aptitude to present high-quality, cost-effective vigor thoughtfulness services to Kentuckians.

AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges

Despite the diverse messages from many physicians almost the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine and infectious-disease specialist in Lexington and the new-fangled president of the American Medical Association, thought the physicians' lobby will act whatever is inside its power to promote "Obamacare."

Prescription drugs killing more women than ever; Kentucky ties for fifth for its high percentage of deaths

The ongoing countrywide endemic of addiction to prescription painkillers is scattering more quickly amongst women, and it is homicide more women than endlessly beforehand. Kentucky ties Utah in support of the fifth highest percentage of female deaths due to prescription-drug overdose (15.7 percent), says a new-fangled government shot.