By Lisa English Hinkle While the COVID-19 virus surges and possibly re-surges in states all around us, Kentucky’s cautious management of this crisis has created opportunities for healthcare providers to ease back into business and shift into recovery. Whether Kentucky can continue to contain the virus is uncertain, but as healthcare providers retool and spend…
Finance execs discuss navigating the pandemic
Medical News recently spoke with local finance executives who discussed navigating through the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical News: How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your business operations? Craig Collins, Vice President and CFO, UK HealthCare As with most healthcare organizations, COVID-19 has had a major impact on UK HealthCare’s (UKHC) revenue related to patient volumes and…
Kentucky can be a leader in suspending the third-party payer rule
By Gwen Cooper Help me understand this…according to a recent Families USA study, during the early stages of the pandemic a staggering 5.4 million laid-off Americans lost their health insurance in a matter of weeks, a historic drop off and nearly 40 percent higher than during the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009. Yet, nonprofit…
Healthcare organizations encouraged to enhance data security
By Margaret Young Levi and Kathie McDonald-McClure The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint alert warning of techniques that advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are using to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic. APT groups target and exploit organizations…
Is telehealth here to stay?
By Jennifer Henry Jackson and Sarah Cronan Spurlock As a result of social distancing rules and “shelter in place” orders that have been implemented around the country, the COVID-19 public health emergency rapidly accelerated the use of telehealth in the United States. Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly half of all physicians are treating…
Diversity and inclusion in healthcare
By Ben Keeton Until recently, I did not know that the Falls City Medical Society existed. In 1902, the Falls City Medical Society was formed in response to a growing number of black physicians in Louisville. These physicians, left out of the segregated medical societies, desired to have a forum for the exchange of ideas,…