Board of Healing Arts executive director resigns
The executive director of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts has resigned from the agency, an official confirmed.
Kathleen Selzler Lippert turned in her resignation...
Senate Medicaid plan advances but faces opposition
The slow legislative slog toward expanding Medicaid in Kansas started Wednesday when Senate Republicans for the first time offered up a plan to compete...
Experts lay out potential hurdles to Senate Medicaid plan
Two health care experts on Tuesday laid out potential obstacles to implementing Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning's proposal to expand Medicaid in Kansas.
Addressing Gov....
Proposed Planned Parenthood clinic runs into opposition
As Planned Parenthood scouts a location for a new women's health clinic in Kansas City, Kan., it is already running into opposition from abortion...
Concerns expressed about cost of Medicaid study
State insurance officials on Tuesday expressed concern about how much it would cost to prepare an application for part of the Senate's Medicaid expansion...
Lawmakers, budget director tangle over Medicaid plan
Gov. Laura Kelly's administration on Wednesday opened up a line of attack against the Republican Senate plan for expanding Medicaid.
In what might have been...
Work requirements recommended for Medicaid expansion
A panel of lawmakers staked out conservative ground for Medicaid expansion on Wednesday, recommending work requirements for any proposal to expand medical coverage for...
Lawmakers cautioned on Medicaid work requirement
State health Secretary Lee Norman on Tuesday warned lawmakers that adding a work requirement for Medicaid expansion could drive up the cost of the...
GOP senators demand budget director withdraw testimony
A group of key Republican lawmakers is demanding that the state budget director withdraw testimony critical of the Senate's Medicaid expansion plan.
Republican members of...
UPDATED: Democratic leadership takes on GOP Medicaid bill
(Updated to reflect new comments from Denning)
The volume of the Medicaid expansion debate turned up a notch Thursday when Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley...
