Insurance Coverage

Knowledge gap: The ACA marketplace is coming but who knows?

0 | May. 13, 2013 | Health Reform, Insurance

Enrollment for health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s new online marketplaces is scheduled to start Oct. 1 in Kansas and across the nation. But it is clear that many, if not most, of the millions of people expected to benefit from the so-called “insurance exchanges,” still know little or nothing about how the marketplaces are supposed to work or the law behind them.

Kansas to get new ACA jobs despite snub of health care law

0 | May. 10, 2013 | Workforce, Health Reform, Insurance

Four states that have snubbed the federal health law by defaulting to the federal government to build new online insurance marketplaces and not agreeing to expand Medicaid are getting new jobs at call centers that will help consumers understand their new coverage options this fall. Kansas is one of them.

Safety-net clinics eligible for $1.7 million in federal marketplace grants

0 | May. 09, 2013 | Community Health, Health Reform, Insurance

Federal official today announced that 16 safety-net clinics in Kansas are eligible for more than $1.7 million in grants to help the state’s uninsured and underinsured residents find affordable health insurance through the new online insurance marketplace that is scheduled to be operational by Oct. 1.

Safety-net providers moving forward with health information exchange

0 | May. 09, 2013 | HIE-HIT, Safety Net

With initial assistance from the REACH Healthcare Foundation, more than a dozen safety-net medical providers in Johnson and Wyandotte counties have started working to improve care coordination by sharing patient records electronically.

Blue Cross Kansas elects new board chair

0 | May. 09, 2013 | Insurance

Directors of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas have elected a new board chair.