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(This story has been updated.)A high-stakes gambit initiated by Kansas lawmakers Thursday could prove to be the checkmate move that blocks Republican Gov.…
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Kansas officials are moving to protect more than 800 vulnerable residents of 15 financially troubled nursing homes across the state.The Kansas Department…
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This story was updated at 3:22 p.m. on March 15 to include Jon Stewart's statement. The CEO of a safety net clinic in Lawrence, Kansas, has been suspended…
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Missouri’s general revenue spending on Medicaid has topped more than 2 billion dollars annually in recent years and its costs are rising.That’s a problem…
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Proposed changes to KanCare — the taxpayer-funded health care program that more than 400,000 poor, elderly and disabled Kansans depend on — face…
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Osawatomie State Hospital is again eligible for millions of dollars in federal Medicare payments after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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This story was updated at 4:24 p.m. to include comments from the CEO of McPherson Hospital.Two Kansas hospitals have been selected to take part in a…
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Kansas officials seeking to renew KanCare are asking people covered by the privatized Medicaid program to trust them to make it better.In a series of…
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President Trump has pledged to not make cuts to Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors, but Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for…
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The federal agency that oversees Medicaid has agreed to a one-year extension of Kansas’ $3.2 billion KanCare program, which provides managed care services…
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Kansas officials say there is little chance that more than 400,000 Kansans who depend on the state’s Medicaid program will see their services…
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Two area hospitals earned spots on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” list.The University of Kansas Hospital was deemed to be the best hospital…