telemedicine

The pandemic allowed people to receive prescriptions for mental health and opioid addiction through telemedicine. Now Kansas clinicians want those flexibilities to be permanent.

The patchwork nature of abortion laws across the Midwest has made the procedure harder for pregnant people to get — and for health care providers to give. Telemedicine rules present especially murky legal territory.

Medical records show Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle has been sanctioned in at least 10 states for prescribing medications via telemedicine to patients with whom he did not have a physician-patient relationship.

A dizzying array of temporary policy changes at the state and federal levels eased the switch to health care over telephones and laptops during the pandemic, but they may not last.

Last week, Gov. Laura Kelly made her state’s children the first in the country sent home for the rest of the school year. This weekend, she took…

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — When Christi Graber checked into the St. Catherine Hospital emergency room late last year, she thought she was having a heart...

More people in Missouri are consulting doctors via telephone or video services — and mental health care is most in demand. Patient visits using...

This spring, abortion rights supporters scored a massive legal victory: The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that women have the right to abortion under the…

In April, the Kansas Supreme Court said the state’s constitution gives women a right to abortion.That landmark ruling bolsters an ongoing lawsuit to…

When a ban might not be a banLegislators set out this year to make telemedicine more practical in Kansas. They drafted a law that would force insurance…

Revving up revenuesRemember the tax cuts engineered by then-Gov. Sam Brownback? And recall how those tax cuts were followed, month after month and year…

A Kansas law prohibiting drug-induced abortions via telemedicine is being challenged by a women’s health clinic in Wichita that provides abortions.Trust…