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The Kansas Dental Board (KDB) is the state agency regulating dentistry. Its headquarters are in Room 564-S in the Landon State Office Building in Topeka . [ 1 ]
A 2006 PriceWaterhouseCoopers report for America's Health Insurance Plans (a health-insurer trade association) used the 2 percent figure and an extrapolation from the Kessler and McClellan report to estimate that the combined cost of insurance and defensive medicine accounts for 10 percent of total health care costs in the U.S. [51]
Health insurance company Aetna is suing the state of Kansas after losing its managed care organization contract with KanCare. Aetna Better Health of Kansas filed the lawsuit July 24 in Shawnee ...
Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from standards in their profession, thereby causing injury or death to a patient. [1] The negligence might arise from errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.
A Kansas doctor has lost his medical license after pleading guilty to a felony crime in Missouri. The doctor was part of a telemedicine scheme that defrauded Medicare of about $16 million.
A federal judge last week dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against the Kansas Department of Health and Environment over an Army National Guard member's job loss.
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...
A Kansas woman has filed suit against Saint Luke’s Health System and doctors, seeking $25,000 in damages for alleged medical malpractice and negligence for failing to correctly diagnose her with MS.