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Kansas’ Medicaid program, called KanCare, has about 500,000 recipients. Thus far, of the 300,000 Kansans who have received renewal applications, more than 22,000 Kansans have lost coverage ...
Medicaid expansion, which was made available in the Affordable Care Act, is estimated to extend coverage to more than 150,000 Kansans. The state is one of 10 in the nation that has not yet ...
The Kansas Legislature is gearing up for the first public committee hearings on Medicaid expansion in four years. Next Wednesday is the day when both the House and Senate will have hearings.
Christine Osterlund, the state Medicaid director, had told lawmakers adults only qualify at or below 38% of the federal poverty level. For a single parent with one child, that means $648 a month ...
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a ...
Kansas officials have selected three health insurance companies to serve as managed care organizations for KanCare, the state's privatized Medicaid program that serves about 458,000 people ...
Stitt unveiled his proposal, dubbed SoonerCare 2.0, in March 2020; the plan involved expansion of the state's Medicaid program including work requirements and tiered monthly premiums and copays. [74] His plan was to serve as the state's use of CMS's Healthy Adult Opportunity program with an anticipated rollout in July 2020.
The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute HB 2117), in May 2012, [1] [2] and ended with the Kansas legislature's repeal of the bill in June 2017.