Open enrollment kicks off tomorrow for individuals and businesses looking to purchase health insurance, and with the healthcare landscape more politicized than ever, there will be plenty to watch for. Federal officials significantly downsized expectations this year, after a tumultuous, bitterly partisan but ultimately successful start to last year’s inaugural season under Obamacare that enrolled […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell has won his life-long dream to be majority leader in the Senate. He had no trouble beating Alison Lundergan Grimes in Tuesday’s election in Kentucky. He has low favorable ratings in his home state (only 38% of voters approved of his work in mid-October), but President Obama is even less popular (only […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Those itching for a medical device tax repeal are finding hope from the GOP-heavy Senate, and its newly reelected Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. Republicans will likely focus their energy on dismantling the 2.3 percent tax on device revenues, according to the Washington Post WonkBlog: Republicans won’t be able to dismantle President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, but they are likely […]
Some of the states that were most successful in enrolling consumers on the exchanges embraced brokers. In California, 39 percent of people who signed up for a private exchange plan enrolled with a broker; in Kentucky the number reached 44 percent.
Kentucky-based biotech Apellis Pharmaceuticals is raising a nice chunk of change – $17.6 million, according to a regulatory filing, with aims to reach $24 million in the round – but its website is woefully out of date, so what they’re doing at present is a bit of a question mark. The company’s site says it is approaching chronic […]
Mental health therapists most often leave issues of faith outside their office doors, even for patients who are religious. But one class of counselors believes a nonsectarian model doesn’t serve everyone equally well. “On a feeling level, people want a safe, respectful place, to ponder the tons of questions that come begging in hard times,” […]
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Kentucky healthcare accelerator XLerateHealth’s second class of eight startups has a stronger life sciences flavor this year with clinical applications of software. It seems to be a growing trend among accelerators in the healthcare space not only as diagnostic tools become more integrated with smartphones but also as early-stage health IT companies take a greater […]
Starting July 15, nurse practitioners in Kentucky who have completed a four-year collaboration with a physician will be allowed to prescribe routine medications without a doctor’s involvement, a major shift that could help improve consumers’ access to care. The law that makes this possible passed after five years of legislative debate. Nurse practitioners are fighting […]
The 3D printer has rapidly become something of a medtech superhero. In its latest feat, the technology helped surgeons at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, Ky., save a child born with congenital heart defects. 3D printing technology saved the day when pediatric surgeons needed a customized trachea splint when an infant’s trachea collapsed. It’s improved […]
Obamacare made it through a government shutdown, a debt ceiling negotiation and even a pretty bad health insurance exchanges website launch. What’s next for enrollment and the Affordable Care Act? Check out these five Friday reads focused on the exchanges. The New Republic: The federal government’s screw-up of the health insurance exchanges site isn’t stopping […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Kentucky’s state-run online health insurance exchange seems to have fared better than most others so far, enrolling close to 7,000 people in the first seven days of October. That’s according to Barbara Gordon, the director of social services for Kentuckiana Regional Planning & Development Agency. The agency is one of two nonprofits awarded grant funding […]
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Behind the Jim Beam American Stillhouse and the Wild Turkey Sit N’ Sip Saloon at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, a sales team pitches the Affordable Care Act. But potential buyers are wary. On a late September night – just days before the Oct. 1launch of the state’s online health insurance marketplace called Kynect — most passersby […]
The most popular giveaway at the Kentucky State Fair this weekend was from Kynect, the state’s health insurance marketplace. The reusable shopping bag was everywhere — the midway, the chicken barn, the fair food corridor and the 4-H exhibits. Many of the target customers of the marketplace were carrying the blue bag: single parents, older […]
OK, Louisville. You’ve had the whole summer to sleep off that basketball championship and the Derby. School’s back in session. Six startups are spending the next 10 weeks in Louisville, Kentucky, with their heads down, pencils sharpened and proverbial thinking caps on as they begin XLerateHealth‘s intensive immersion program as its inaugural class. There, they’ll […]
It’s a good time to enter the EP-mapping and ablation device market, as Millennium Research Group reports, the more and more popular A-fib ablation procedure will drive those areas toward a value of more than $2.4 billion by 2021. The increase in atrial fibrillation ablations will drive strong growth in the electrophysiology (EP)-mapping and the […]