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- National Rural Health Day To Be Celebrated Nov. 15 With Free Week-long Issue-based Webinar Series
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- Forums Set To Explain State Insurance Exchange And Its New Opportunities For Coverage, Little Known To Most Who Will Be Eligible
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- What Is The Illinois Partnership Health Insurance Marketplace?
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Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky's online health insurance exchange, KYnect, Nov. 7 at the West Kentucky Community and Technical College in Paducah from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This event is geared toward health-care providers, administrators, directors, community agencies, coalitions, Kynect navigators, mid-level managers, front-line staff and other health-care workers.
Bill Nold, deputy director of the exchange, will present this program, sponsored by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health, the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, the Purchase Area Health Education Center and the Western Kentucky Rural Health Network.
The event is free, but pre-registration is required because seating is limited. Contact Alice Combs, Kentucky Office of Rural Health, [email protected], or call 606-439-3557, ext. 83703.
This event is geared toward health-care providers, administrators, directors, community agencies, coalitions, Kynect navigators, mid-level managers, front-line staff and other health-care workers.
Bill Nold, deputy director of the exchange, will present this program, sponsored by the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health, the Kentucky Office of Rural Health, the Purchase Area Health Education Center and the Western Kentucky Rural Health Network.
The event is free, but pre-registration is required because seating is limited. Contact Alice Combs, Kentucky Office of Rural Health, [email protected], or call 606-439-3557, ext. 83703.
- Websites That Misled Kentuckians Seeking Health Insurance Are Taken Down, Blocked Or Corrected
Three websites that were misleading Kentuckians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and about the state's health-insurance exchange have either been taken down, corrected or blocked by the state attorney general's Office of Consumer...
- Most Who Would Benefit From Insurance Exchanges Under Health Reform Knew Nothing About Them Last Fall
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect millions of Americans, especially those in rural areas. But many are not prepared for the coming changes, according to a survey by Enroll America, a non-profit group that calls itself "a nonpartisan...
- National Rural Health Day To Be Celebrated Nov. 15 With Free Week-long Issue-based Webinar Series
Those almost 60 million Americans who live in rural America do not have as much ready access to health care or to the vast number of health care providers than those who live in more urbanized America. Rural Americans are more likely to arrive on the...
- Forums Set To Explain State Insurance Exchange And Its New Opportunities For Coverage, Little Known To Most Who Will Be Eligible
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Now that Gov. Steve Beshear has issued the order to create a state health insurance exchange, the state is scheduling public forums to explain it. Rachel Klein, the executive director of Enroll America, said...
- What Is The Illinois Partnership Health Insurance Marketplace?
The Affordable Care Act requires each state to have a health insurance marketplace (otherwise known as a "health insurance exchange"). Originally, the plan was for each state to establish its own health insurance marketplace, or default to a federally-run...