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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The two companies had taken issue with Gov. Laura Kelly's administration awarding KanCare managed care organization contracts to United Healthcare, Sunflower and Healthy Blue. Todd Herman ...
The state’s medicaid program is called KanCare. It provides free and reduced healthcare for people who have low incomes, are caregivers for children, are expectant mothers or qualify in other ways.
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 ...