The KHI News Service provides thorough and objective coverage of issues, people and events that affect health policy in Kansas. The KHI News Service is an editorially independent program of the Kansas Health Institute. It operates separately from KHI’s research and policy operations, similar to the way traditional media outlets separate their newsrooms from advertising and circulation departments.
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Governor Sam Brownback today signed into law a controversial tax bill, using as his backdrop the construction site of a residential and retail development here that he said symbolized the accelerated economic activity that would result from his campaign to eliminate the state income tax.
0 | Jun. 19, 2013 |
A new commissioner and program director have been named at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.
0 | Jun. 19, 2013 |
State officials said they expect about 300 people to attend the Strong Dads Summit Thursday in Wichita being sponsored by the Kansas Department for Children and Families.
0 | Jun. 19, 2013 |
State officials have scheduled an hour-long public forum next week in Topeka to hear comments about KanCare, the Medicaid makeover initiative launched in January by Gov. Sam Brownback.
0 | Jun. 19, 2013 |
They might work side by side, but that doesn’t mean they work together. Because they are subject to different regulations and separate bottom lines, doctors, hospitals and county health departments rarely collaborate and that needs to change.
2 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas is among the states where federal officials will run the new health insurance exchanges but the state’s top insurance regulators said they hope to inject a local flavor. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said her agency has been in discussion with the feds about having some of the more complex calls to the exchange’s toll-free helpline roll over to her department so that Kansas consumers come in touch quickly with local people more familiar with the Kansas insurance plans offered in the exchange and the governing regulations.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Dr. Robert Moser is scheduled to discuss the agency’s ongoing interest in finding ways to integrate primary care and public health during a Wednesday appearance before Kansas Association of Local Health Departments.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
The Tower Mental Health Foundation is soliciting grant applications for projects and activities that support mental health services in Kansas.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
As part of a high-profile White House initiative, the metropolitan area is among a handful of communities around the country expected to gather hundreds of people for a meeting about mental illness within the next few months.
0 | Jun. 17, 2013 |
The federal government spends billions each year to support programs that train doctors, but the number of physicians who choose primary care or rural practice remains inadequate despite repeated calls for greater program accountability. A new article published in the journal "Academic Medicine" proposes ways to better measure the results of graduate medical education.
0 | Jun. 17, 2013 |
A late, largely unnoticed addition to the budget bill that was approved in the final days of this year’s legislative session appears to be a boon for a Kansas company that sells access to a computer program intended to help elementary students learn to read.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
Expanded privatization, according to officials at the Kansas Department for Children and Families, could increase child support collections by $52 million over a three-year period.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
The regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met with representatives of about 10 Kansas health consumer groups to discuss implementation of the Affordable Care Act. "It will be ready. It will happen," said administrator Stephene Moore of the Oct. 1 launch date for the ACA insurance marketplace.
2 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas is among the states where federal officials will run the new health insurance exchanges but the state’s top insurance regulators said they hope to inject a local flavor. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said her agency has been in discussion with the feds about having some of the more complex calls to the exchange’s toll-free helpline roll over to her department so that Kansas consumers come in touch quickly with local people more familiar with the Kansas insurance plans offered in the exchange and the governing regulations.
0 | Jun. 17, 2013 |
A late, largely unnoticed addition to the budget bill that was approved in the final days of this year’s legislative session appears to be a boon for a Kansas company that sells access to a computer program intended to help elementary students learn to read.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
The regional director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met with representatives of about 10 Kansas health consumer groups to discuss implementation of the Affordable Care Act. "It will be ready. It will happen," said administrator Stephene Moore of the Oct. 1 launch date for the ACA insurance marketplace.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
The Tower Mental Health Foundation is soliciting grant applications for projects and activities that support mental health services in Kansas.
0 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
As part of a high-profile White House initiative, the metropolitan area is among a handful of communities around the country expected to gather hundreds of people for a meeting about mental illness within the next few months.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
Expanded privatization, according to officials at the Kansas Department for Children and Families, could increase child support collections by $52 million over a three-year period.
0 | Oct. 30, 2007 |
TOPEKA, Oct. 30 - Auditors on Tuesday said they found nothing improper about a $1.8 million "separation" payment made earlier this year to former University of Kansas Hospital president Irene Cumming after she told the hospital's board she was resigning.
0 | Dec. 04, 2012 |
As the health care overhaul moves ahead, the nation's health insurers are scrambling to reinvent themselves, hoping to boost their image and entice millions of Americans to enroll, some for the first time.
0 | Jun. 14, 2013 |
In Kansas last year, one-fourth of the homicides involved domestic violence.
2 | Jun. 18, 2013 |
Kansas is among the states where federal officials will run the new health insurance exchanges but the state’s top insurance regulators said they hope to inject a local flavor. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said her agency has been in discussion with the feds about having some of the more complex calls to the exchange’s toll-free helpline roll over to her department so that Kansas consumers come in touch quickly with local people more familiar with the Kansas insurance plans offered in the exchange and the governing regulations.
2 | Jun. 10, 2013 |
School administrators at small, rural districts around the state say they are alarmed and confounded by the looming, new costs they face with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
1 | Jun. 07, 2013 |
The governor and state health officer announced a coming online exercise program designed to encourage Kansans to exercise more, and state workers who do so can earn insurance premium discounts.
3 | Jun. 04, 2013 |
A state senator who has adopted four boys out of foster care said he’s putting together a plan for reforming the state’s foster care and adoption programs. “There need to be changes in every single part of the system,” said Sen. Forrest Knox, an Altoona Republican.
2 | Jun. 07, 2013 |
Kansas officials this week made public their first quarterly report to federal authorities on the progress of KanCare, Gov. Sam Brownback's initiative to move virtually all the state's Medicaid enrollees into privately run managed care plans.
2 | May. 27, 2013 |
Kansas insurance companies are preparing to sell a range of health plans on a new, online marketplace being created by the federal government. But large numbers of Americans who stand to benefit most from the marketplaces still know little to nothing about the law or how it will affect them.
2 | Apr. 01, 2013 |
Prominent politicians born in log cabins weren’t that common even in the old days. Before House Speaker Ray Merrick came along, Kansas hadn’t had one since Charles Curtis, the long-time U.S. senator who went on to become vice president under Herbert Hoover.
5 | Nov. 01, 2010 |
Proponents say e-cigarettes deliver only nicotine with none of the hazardous chemicals of traditional cigarettes. The smoke-like vapor emitted is virtually odorless and harmless, they say. But opponents say little is known of e-cigarettes' health effects and until they've been rigorously studied, they should be banned - at least from public spaces.
1 | Jun. 03, 2013 |
Final deliberations by a task force charged with coming up with a plan for reforming the state’s Sexual Predator Treatment program will be closed to the public, according to state officials. “They want to be able to concentrate on their work and have a frank discussion of what they’re going to recommend without an audience,” said Angela de Rocha, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, the agency that created the task force. “I don’t blame them.”
2 | May. 20, 2013 |
Every day a small army of Kansans — officials estimate there are about 16,000 of them — are at work helping some of the state’s neediest cope with the demands of daily life so that they can remain in their own homes rather than nursing homes or state institutions.
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