Governor vetoes bill banning government mask mandates
Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a bill barring any government or public official in Kansas from ordering mask mandates in response to a...
Social services reorg: Opposition without opposition
Gov. Laura Kelly's proposal to bring together social services under one umbrella is running into turbulence again, and Democrats wonder why since there isn't...
Medicaid contract freeze returns amid immunity debate
As a conference community struggles to reach a compromise on extending civil immunity protections for health care providers, a new wrinkle emerged Thursday reviving...
Medical immunity bill bogs down in committee
With time running out, a bill extending civil liability protections to health care providers for damages arising from the pandemic got bogged down in...
Kelly: State inspectors won’t enforce federal health care vaccine mandate
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday that state inspectors would not enforce vaccine mandates at federally funded health care facilities, but the move will come...
UPDATED: State pauses Medicaid disenrollments amid ‘unwinding’ process
(Updated to show that disenrollments have resumed.)
Kansas has paused cutting people off Medicaid as it unwinds from a federal law that blocked beneficiaries from...
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...
UPDATED: KU launches plan to address nursing shortage; hospital nursing vacancies peak
(Updated to correct the hospital nursing vacancies were the highest since 2000)
As hospitals struggle to recruit nurses and the demand for nursing heightens, the...
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...
Schmidt challenging nursing home vaccine mandate
Republican Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Wednesday filed a third lawsuit challenging Biden administration vaccine mandates, this time for health care facilities that...
