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Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 1 to include the response of the CEO of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.A former emergency room nurse at…
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A bill headed to President Barack Obama’s desk will require hospitals to notify Medicare patients if they were admitted or only kept under observation.But…
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Advocates of government-sponsored health care gathered Thursday at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, to mark the…
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is urging members of Congress to ratify a controversial health compact that would give Kansas and eight other states…
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Note: KCUR will run a series of stories Friday on end-of-life issues and the policy changes needed to give people more control over what happens to them…
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A lot of the hospitals in rural Kansas are called “Critical Access Hospitals.” It’s an important designation, because Critical Access Hospitals were…
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A whistleblower lawsuit alleging a Kansas oncologist provided medically unnecessary services is the second suit to question his practices, according to…
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This story was updated at 5:14 p.m. to include comments from a spokeswoman for Cox Medical Center.Cox Medical Center in Branson, Missouri, is the latest…
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Story updated at 12:26 p.m.Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City overbilled Medicare $581,000 over a two-year period, a federal report concludes.The report…
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The public should expect to see significant evolutions in Medicare and Medicaid in coming years, a national health care expert told a Kansas City audience…
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Hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in Kansas are part of an ongoing national conflict over “observational stays” that can leave the facilities and…
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A once-obscure effort by a group of states to get out from under federal health care regulations has become an issue in the final days of the Kansas…