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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's administration initially said that KanCare would save the state $1 billion over five years. A Leawood lawyer says KanCare contractors have used threats to get those ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - Starting next week, Kansas Medicaid will expand to include doulas. KanCare will recognize them as non-physician providers starting July 1 with the aim of helping to ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced a selection of three managed care organizations that will serve KanCare. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...