The U.S. health care system has struggled for decades with the tension between providing incentives for pharmaceutical innovation and keeping breakthroughs affordable for those who would most benefit from them. Even as countries around the…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Chamber released a legislative policy agenda Thursday endorsing a proposed single rate state income tax, opposing expansion of Medicaid health coverage to 150,000 low-income Kansans and supporting investment of state tax…

Eight months after states started dropping millions of low-income families from Medicaid rolls, grassroots groups say they are leading the push to re-enroll people denied coverage for bureaucratic reasons. Nationwide, more than 12.5 million people…

LAWRENCE — Patti Garbeff recalled a meeting at her kitchen table about enrolling her daughter Pattie in the Kansas ABLE savings plan enabling people with disabilities to save for education, housing, transportation, employment training and…

A few days before New Year’s Eve, an unfamiliar health insurance card for me arrived in the mail. I assumed there must have been an error and called the human resources department of the medical…

TOPEKA — The state has approximately four months left to finish a large-scale Medicaid review process, with more than 20,000 Kansans already deemed ineligible for health coverage.  During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal “continuous coverage” provisions…

TOPEKA — Kansas administrators of the Medicaid program estimate 12,000 adults or children eligible for the health coverage program were stripped of benefits due to problems with processing renewals. The U.S. Department of Health and…

TOPEKA — A Kansas advocacy organization said state records indicated children comprised two-thirds of the 45,000 people who have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons since the restart in April of eligibility assessments halted during…

OLATHE — Standing at the site of a future mental health hospital, Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday emphasized the benefits Medicaid expansion would have for low-income families struggling with mental health challenges. The Democratic governor…

WASHINGTON — States are disenrolling residents from Medicaid at a breakneck pace, even though a large percentage of those losing coverage are still eligible for the program. But the unique structure of the jointly run…