KY bill making sweeping changes to Medicaid adds copays (but they’re lower now)

By: Sarah Ladd

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: April 1, 2026

Words: 963

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Senate has lowered the copays Medicaid patients would have to pay under a bill that proposes a work requirement and other sweeping changes to the federal-state program.

House Bill 2 proposed adding copays of $35 for inpatient hospital services and $8 copays for prescription glasses and contacts.

In the Senate version, which passed the Senate health services committee unanimously Tuesday, copays are still included, but they’ve been slashed. …

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