For more than a year, dozens of complaints about KanCare fraud, waste and abuse went to an email account no one was checking, according to a report released Monday by the Kansas Attorney General ...

Jon Hamdorf, interim Medicaid director with the Kansas Department of Health and Enviornment, responds to questions at a KanCare 2.0 public hearing last week in Topeka. Kansas officials seeking to ...

This fall, the state of Kansas will select the next set of managed care organizations to administer the KanCare program, which provides Medicaid health insurance coverage for some 415,000 low ...

KanCare members also can get test strips delivered to their homes via three mail-order providers: Complete Medical Homecare, Liberator Medical Supply and Edgepark Medical Supplies.

Vicki Distefano relies on KanCare to provide the in-home care her brother needs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A 2006 motorcycle accident left Mike Distefano unable to walk, talk or take care ...

Editor's note: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not approve the inclusion of long-term services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled into KanCare, according to a ...

A House committee mulling a bill to exclude long-term care of the developmentally disabled from the "KanCare" overhaul heard testimony this week about the spotty creditworthiness of three of the ...

A debate has raged in Kansas for years over KanCare, the privatized Medicaid plan enacted by Sam Brownback in 2013. Brownback and his successor, Jeff Colyer, have touted the program as a ...

The contracts will take effect in 2018. Medicaid in Kansas is called KanCare. It provides health insurance for low-income and disabled residents. KanCare recipients have complained about longer ...

KSN first sat down with Coe Gentry and his parents in August 2014.RELATED | KanCare and in-home disability deductions Coe is now 28. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD, and mild Cerebral Palsy.

The KanCare Ombudsman office, based in Topeka, is starting an ombudsman volunteer program in Kansas City, Johnson County and Wichita. The KanCare Ombudsman office works with members and health ...

Two managed care organizations are formally protesting how Kansas officials awarded KanCare MCO contracts. Aetna and CareSource filed protests with the Kansas Department of Administration after ...