Ron Fugate testified in support of the bill to remove disability support services from KanCare. Fugate is one of the leaders of a Johnson County group called Families for KanCare Reform. Andy Marso ...
Jon Hamdorf, interim Medicaid director with the Kansas Department of Health and Enviornment, responds to questions at a KanCare 2.0 public hearing last week in Topeka. Kansas officials seeking to ...
After leading the effort to privatize Medicaid in Kansas five years ago, Gov. Jeff Colyer is fighting to protect his KanCare legacy. Colyer counts KanCare among his signature achievements as ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced a selection of three managed care organizations that will serve KanCare. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...
There may be no turning back on KanCare, the Brownback administration’s privatization of what had been a fiscally unsustainable state-run Medicaid program. But is KanCare itself unsustainable?
Then-Gov. Sam Brownback signed the state's first KanCare contracts in 2012. AP file The state of Kansas announced new contracts Friday for its $3 billion privatized Medicaid program, KanCare, ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - A health care center estimates changes to KanCare could impact patients. Heartland Community Health Center announced in December, congress moved the Medicaid continuous ...
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Jeff Andersen explains a KanCare contract extension to lawmakers. Troubled Medicaid contractor Maximus could soon have a new contract with Kansas ...
Taryn Schraad, left, and Linda Sherman of Lawrence Memorial Hospital tell a Kansas Legislative Committee that the private contractors managing the state's KanCare system are routinely denying claims ...
It’s not often that a legislative body has an opportunity to make good policy, provide needed services to tens of thousands of state residents, and positively impact the state budget. But that is ...
President Donald Trump’s budget package cuts a number of social services and programs to help pay for other costs, like renewing tax cuts and increasing border spending. In Missouri and Kansas, the ...