UPDATED: Kansas abortions reach highest point since ’01
(Updated to include more comments from various interests with edits throughout)
In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its historic decision legalizing abortion,...
UPDATED: Alliance forms with advocacy groups to seek KanCare contract
(Updated to reflect new expiration date for the MCO contracts provided by the state)
An Ohio-based managed care nonprofit is teaming up with Kansas groups...
UPDATED: Abortion providers challenge ‘abortion reversal’ law
(Updated to include comments from Kansans for Life, House speaker and the Kansas Catholic Conference)
Abortion providers are challenging a new state law requiring physicians...
Estimated 125,000 Kansans at risk of losing Medicaid coverage during ‘unwinding’
An estimated 125,000 Kansans could be cut off the state Medicaid rolls unless they take steps to have their eligibility reviewed, state officials said...
Kelly signs bill legalizing fentanyl test strips
Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday signed a bill legalizing fentanyl test strips, culminating a three-year effort to combat the climbing number of drug overdose deaths...
Legislature passes bill limiting local, state official health powers
The Legislature on Friday approved a bill limiting the power of state and local health authorities to control the spread of contagious and infectious...
Legislature approves new protection for health care workers
The Kansas Legislature on Thursday gave a new legal protection to health care workers, who have faced a rise in violence over the last...
Kelly vetoes new food-assistance requirement
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill broadening the work and job-training requirements for older Kansans to qualify for food assistance.
The bill extends work...
New state budget adds staff for Medicaid fraud eligibility investigations
The state is beefing up efforts to investigate Medicaid eligibility fraud, something that Kansas regulators have largely overlooked for years.
The state's new budget calls...
Vaccine exemption bill fails to muster enough votes to win passage
A bill removing the power of the state health secretary to limit the spread of infectious diseases and broadening a vaccine exemption for school...
