Robert F. St. Peter, M.D., KHI President & CEO, shared estimates on Medicaid expansion with the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee during a hearing on HB 2044.
Robert F. St. Peter, M.D., KHI President & CEO, shared estimates on Medicaid expansion with the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee during a hearing on HB 2044, which would establish the KanCare Bridge to a Healthy Kansas Program. The bill, which passed the House earlier this session, would expand Medicaid coverage to most low-income, non-elderly Kansas adults, effective January 1, 2018.
In addition to neutral testimony about the bill, KHI provided recent publications to committee members to help inform the policymaking process:
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- Projected Costs and Enrollment of Medicaid Expansion in Kansas: Updated Numbers: This issue brief estimates Medicaid expansion enrollment and direct costs in Kansas.
- Health Insurance in Kansas 2015: This infographic indicates that more than 80,000 uninsured adults in 2015 would have qualified for Medicaid if it had been expanded in Kansas.