Medicare cuts 11 Ky. hospitals for patient-safety issues; repeaters in Louisville, Danville, Hopkinsville, Lexington, Paducah, Florence

The federal government is penalizing 11 Kentucky hospitals for falling short on patient safety in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, two m...

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Kentuckians who qualify for tax-subsidized health plans will sign up on HealthCare.gov this year; open enrollment begins Nov. 1

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentuckians who qualify for health plans subsidized by tax credits, called Qualified Health Plans, w...

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Baptist Health Plan says it pulled out of state exchange because it attracted too many healthy people and got penalized for it

Baptist Health Plan pulled out of Kentucky's insurance exchange because it attracted too many healthy customers and thus drew a federal...

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Millions of Americans miss out on tax credits for health insurance because they don't buy policies on government exchanges

Commonwealth Fund graphic: People who visited marketplaces, but didn't enroll About 2.5 million Americans are overpaying for health insu...

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Health-insurance premiums for 2017 will be more expensive

By Trudy Lieberman , Rural Health News Service Recently I got a note from a reader of these columns who lives in Warren, Ohio. He had seen c...

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