Public health

A state board moved toward instituting salary-based employee premium health insurance payment system as a way to avoid a looming $1.3 billion deficit in the government's health plan budget.

The nonprofit regional healthcare system reported six straight years of operational losses in its most recent financial report.

The funding will help facilities in the state deal with the nurse and doctor shortage, and increase IT projects to bolster its Medi-Cal system.

Hospital margins ticked up in November, but 2022's bruising will linger well into this year straining some ratings.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear talks with Chip Barnett about economic progress the Commonwealth has made this year and how the state-local government partnership strengthened during the pandemic. He describes the heartbreaking human cost of the virus, the deadly toll it took on residents and why the Delta variant is a continuing cause of concern. (14 minutes)

The White House has shortened the enhanced Medicaid formula funding to two years from a proposed four years and continues to stall on publication of a Federal Register notice about the availability of the disaster aid.

The taxing and regulating of a new product that's ingested into the lungs to deliver nicotine is dealt with under federal, state and local laws. William Cox explains Kroll Bond Rating Agency's thoughts about vaping and the associated revenues for governments. John Hallacy hosts.

Salem faces unanticipated costs after cyanotoxins were found in the drinking water supply.

Erie County Medical Center wired $17 million to Erie County last week as part of a borrowing deal that enables the hospital to build a new emergency department.

NEWBERRY, S.C. -- Newberry County Council has approved two third readings for ordinances, one that involves an annual lease-purchase payment related to rolling stock purchases and the other for refinancing Newberry County Memorial Hospital's debt.