Health and welfare committee discusses statewide smoke-free law
Kentucky is getting one step closer to kicking its bad smoking habit. The Interim Joint Committee on Health & Welfare discussed a proposed statewide smoke-free…
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State employee health plan released
The $1.2 billion Kentucky State Employee health plan for the next two years was released to the Interim Joint Committee of State and Local Government…
What employers need to know to claim the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
The IRS has asked us to share the following information about the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit: Many small employers that pay at least…
Kentucky’s MLR waiver request denied
Kentucky’s request to delay the federal health care law’s medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements for the individual health insurance market was denied by the federal…
Tracking the battle over the federal health care law in court
Challenges to the health care law continue to meander their way around our federal court system. From Kaiser Health News, here’s the latest on where each…
Task force convenes in effort to curb childhood obesity
Kentucky and West Virginia are the two worst states in the country in terms of the number of overweight and obese children and it hasn’t…
DOI, CHFS officials speak to Health and Wellness Council
Two key state officials spoke to the Kentucky Chamber Health and Wellness Council during its most recent meeting on July 11. Carrie Banahan, executive director…
Kentucky Chamber is active voice for business community in health care reform
With thousands of pages of regulations circulated by multiple government agencies, tracking implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) can be overwhelming…
Public affairs team recaps 2011 General Assembly
U.S. Senate repeals 1099 tax requirement
With overwhelmingly bipartisan support, the U.S. Senate voted 87-12 today to repeal the 1099 tax reporting requirement passed last year as part of the health…