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- New Insurer, Kentucky Health Cooperative, Gets Federal Loan To Expand Into West Virginia, Now Needs State's Ok
Kentucky's new, not-for-profit health insurer, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, has received approval for a federal loan that will allow it to expand into West Virginia and is seeking approval from the West Virginia insurance commissioner...
- Primary Care Clinics Added To Ky. Health Cooperative's Network
The Kentucky Primary Care Association, a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care services for the under-served, has been added to the Kentucky Health Cooperative?s provider network. This will significantly...
- Kentucky Health Cooperative Partners With Uk Healthcare, Extending Coverage To All 120 Kentucky Counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state's new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky's network of over 1,000 clinicians across...
- Ky. Health Cooperative, A New Kind Of Insurer, Could Help Hold Down Rates And Reshape The Health-care System
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance -- a cooperative that is neither public, like Medicare and Medicaid, or run for profit, like traditional...
- Former Health Secretary Is Ceo Of Kentucky Health Cooperative, A New Type Of Insurance Firm Created By Health Reform
Former health and family services secretary Janie Miller, who resigned in February, has become chief executive of the Kentucky Health Cooperative, a new type of health-insurance organization established by the federal health-care reform law. The Patient...
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Newly formed Kentucky Health Cooperative gets OK to offer plans in state's health insurance exchange
The new Kentucky Health Cooperative's health-insurance plans have received approval from the state Department of Insurance and will be available on Kentucky's insurance exchange market when it opens in October.
?This is a red-letter day for Kentuckians,? Janie Miller, CEO of the cooperative, said in a news release. ?Although health-care cooperatives have offered quality care and lower overhead expenses to members since the 1930s, they?re the ?newest kid? on Kentucky?s health insurance block. Efforts are underway to help the public become familiar with the cooperative concept.? The cooperative was formed with a mixture of private capital and federal loans.
Miller, a former secretary of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services, said the cooperative is like member-owned and member-operated credit unions, rural electric cooperatives and food co-ops. ?Think agriculture cooperative extension offices, and consider the impact such organizations have made,? she said. ?Doing so makes it easy to imagine the potential, similar value to the citizens of our Commonwealth offered by a health cooperative.?
Joe Smith, chair of the cooperative's board of directors, said ?A gateway has been opened to individuals and small businesses seeking more affordable, consumer-friendly, quality-driven health insurance options.?
Details about the cooperative plans offered to individuals and businesses with 50 or fewer employees on the nw state insurance exchange will be announced in the coming months. (Read more at the KYHC website)
?This is a red-letter day for Kentuckians,? Janie Miller, CEO of the cooperative, said in a news release. ?Although health-care cooperatives have offered quality care and lower overhead expenses to members since the 1930s, they?re the ?newest kid? on Kentucky?s health insurance block. Efforts are underway to help the public become familiar with the cooperative concept.? The cooperative was formed with a mixture of private capital and federal loans.
Miller, a former secretary of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services, said the cooperative is like member-owned and member-operated credit unions, rural electric cooperatives and food co-ops. ?Think agriculture cooperative extension offices, and consider the impact such organizations have made,? she said. ?Doing so makes it easy to imagine the potential, similar value to the citizens of our Commonwealth offered by a health cooperative.?
Joe Smith, chair of the cooperative's board of directors, said ?A gateway has been opened to individuals and small businesses seeking more affordable, consumer-friendly, quality-driven health insurance options.?
Details about the cooperative plans offered to individuals and businesses with 50 or fewer employees on the nw state insurance exchange will be announced in the coming months. (Read more at the KYHC website)
- New Insurer, Kentucky Health Cooperative, Gets Federal Loan To Expand Into West Virginia, Now Needs State's Ok
Kentucky's new, not-for-profit health insurer, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, has received approval for a federal loan that will allow it to expand into West Virginia and is seeking approval from the West Virginia insurance commissioner...
- Primary Care Clinics Added To Ky. Health Cooperative's Network
The Kentucky Primary Care Association, a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care services for the under-served, has been added to the Kentucky Health Cooperative?s provider network. This will significantly...
- Kentucky Health Cooperative Partners With Uk Healthcare, Extending Coverage To All 120 Kentucky Counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state's new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky's network of over 1,000 clinicians across...
- Ky. Health Cooperative, A New Kind Of Insurer, Could Help Hold Down Rates And Reshape The Health-care System
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance -- a cooperative that is neither public, like Medicare and Medicaid, or run for profit, like traditional...
- Former Health Secretary Is Ceo Of Kentucky Health Cooperative, A New Type Of Insurance Firm Created By Health Reform
Former health and family services secretary Janie Miller, who resigned in February, has become chief executive of the Kentucky Health Cooperative, a new type of health-insurance organization established by the federal health-care reform law. The Patient...