Senate confirms health secretary
Gov. Laura Kelly's health secretary emerged from a difficult nomination hearing to easily win Senate confirmation Wednesday.
The Senate confirmed Janet Stanek as state health...
UPDATED: House committee removes money for Medicaid expansion
(UPDATED: Adds response from the governor's office; explains premise of fiscal note for governor's plan; corrects Concannon's proposed amendment to bill)
It was the debate...
Senate approves bill blocking new Medicaid planning
A bill blocking the state from seeking new proposals for its Medicaid program until after this fall's campaign for governor won approval in the...
Business groups wary of COVID mandate proposals
Conservative and business groups are raising red flags about proposals that the Legislature plans to consider at its upcoming special session to battle federal...
Aetna challenges awarding of KanCare contracts in court
Saying it wants to "safeguard the accountability, trust, and fairness in one of the largest procurements" in Kansas history, Aetna for Better Health has...
Abortion opponents demonstrate commitment to ‘restore culture of life’
Despite an adversarial Supreme Court and a vote turning back a constitutional amendment on abortion, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the...
Federal government awards Kansas $222 million for rural health care
The federal government on Monday awarded Kansas about $222 million as part of a national effort to reinvent rural health care, an initiative that...
Budget proposal would limit Healing Arts investigations
A House budget committee this week adopted a proposal that's intended to stop state medical regulators from bullying doctors but that critics say would...
As child advocacy office approaches first anniversary, future debated
As the state's new child welfare advocate office approaches its first anniversary, it's now fully staffed and has opened 69 investigations even as its...
Schmidt appeals telemed abortion decision; says court overstepped authority
Attorney General Derek Schmidt is appealing a judge's ruling that appears to have blocked a 2015 state law that put limits on drug-induced abortions...
