Thursday, May 17
By Mark Graban, author of “Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement” The public is continually subjected to health-related scares, such as food packaging and water bottles that contain BPA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer. The media also highlights food additives that aren’t harmful, but just sound unappetizing, such as [...]
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Just when you thought Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care crisis couldn’t get any crazier, it gets crazier. Coventry Health Care, one of four Medicaid managed care organizations in the state, has notified physicians and pharmacies it will no longer be covering a drug called Suboxone. Which is causing a three-way showdown between the insurer, doctors and pharmacies [...]
Read More →(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 5:05 p.m. on May 8.) Kentucky’s Medicaid managed care meltdown continues. Sources are telling Insider Louisville that Coventry Cares officials put 10 hospitals on notice last Thursday and Friday, threatening to terminate contracts with providers including King’s Daughter Medical Center in Ashland, Ky. and Louisville-based Baptist Healthcare System. [...]
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The health care/healthy living blogs are lit up today with the findings from a just-released survey by Humana and Reader’s Digest. The Humana/Reader’s Digest study is a dose of reality at Insider Louisville, where we spend so much time extolling the virtues of Louisville’s growing trend of high-end, farm-to-table restaurants. The reality is, the vast majority [...]
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(Editor’s note: This opinion piece was first posted on Kentucky Health Policy Institute website and is used here with permission.) By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, KHPI I received a copy of a message University of Louisville President Dr. James Ramsey sent out this week to a star-studded list of politically connected board members, university executives, and [...]
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This is not a new story, but it could turn out to be an important one. Bloomberg and other national media are reporting Louisville-based health insurer/health care provider Humana is under investigation for Medicare pay-for-play in Florida. In a regulatory filing, Humana executives stated the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami requested documents and other information [...]
Read More →(Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on the Kentucky Health Policy Institute website. It is reposted here with permission.) By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, Kentucky Health Policy Institute Insider Louisville has been out front in reporting on the emerging lawsuits by at least one major Medicaid provider against at least two Medicaid MCOs that are handling Medicaid [...]
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Dr. Peter Hasselbacher: Metro Council shouldn’t sign off on indigent care funding till U of L becomes more transparent
By Dr. Peter Hasselbacher, Kentucky Health Policy Institute In an earlier post, I urged readers to make their opinions known to Metro Louisville leadership about the University of Louisville’s request to maintain the status quo as to how public money for indigent care – the QCCT funds – is funneled through U of L. In that [...]
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