State Medicaid director departing
Sarah Fertig is leaving as the state's Medicaid director after leading the $4 billion program for a little more than three years.
A spokesperson for...
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...
Top Medicaid administrator highlights ‘unwinding’ challenges
A top state Medicaid administrator recounted the many lessons the state has learned grappling with the thousands of Kansans whose eligibility for health insurance...
State resumes Medicaid disenrollments as unwinding continues
State health officials said Wednesday they've resumed removing people from the Medicaid rolls after they briefly paused the disenrollments to give Kansans more time...
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...
UPDATED: Kelly administration to keep gender marker policy intact; Kobach promises court fight
(Updated to include comments from Republican leadership, MainStream Coalition)
Gov. Laura Kelly's administration will keep intact its policy for allowing transgender Kansans to change gender...
Third outside group to join bidding for KanCare contract
A third outside group is planning to get in on the bidding for one of the contracts to administer to the state's $4.2 billion...
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...
