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.

Rushed transition to managed care is cautionary tale for other states, especially those with large rural populations

Kaden Stone and mother, Angelina Alcott (Photo by Julie Bergal)

Since Kentucky's abrupt revolution to a Medicaid managed-care usage in 2011, problems own been extensive amid patients and providers, highlighting the dangers representing other states,

Kentucky among states selected to study, address expensive problem of 'superusers' of emergency rooms

Kentucky is solitary of a a small number of states teaming up with the National Governors Association to attend to the expensive glitch of uninsured or Medicaid-covered "superusers" who over-use hospice emergency quarters or other costly physical condition services as an alternative of lower-cost alternatives like primary thought.

School boards across Ky. realign school-nurse programs, squeezed by budget cuts and Medicaid payment issues

School districts in Kentucky own long relied on district physical condition departments representing train nurses, but state financial plan cuts and problems with Medicaid reimbursements own squeezed the physical condition agencies, and they in try own plunk the squeeze on the schools representing more money and other measures.

Auditor Edelen says Medicaid providers 8 percent fewer under managed care; cabinet says report is limited, outdated

The digit of frequent relaying on Medicaid will escalation dramatically in 2014, as Kentucky expands it to include frequent with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, but nearby is more alarm than endlessly almost the availability of health-care providers to talk of them.

Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange

A expert upheld Gov. Steve Beshear's decisions to increase Medicaid and calibrate up the state's health-insurance swap over under federal vigor reform, but his adversaries say they will carry on to fight in quad.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd's two rulings mean so as to implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, through Medicaid development and the vigor swap over will carry on as intended, by the side of smallest amount in support of at the moment.

Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd

Tea Party broadminded David Adams filed a proceedings in April challenging the governor's authorized authority to create the insurance swap over, which is called Kynect and begins enrollment Oct 1, lacking at the outset seeking admiration from the General Assembly.