Medicare

Officials from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services are telling state lawmakers that the agency will hire a consultant to help pursue recertification.

Here is the audio of the 2016 State-of-the-State address at the Kansas Statehouse, delivered on Tuesday, January 12, 2016.

Renovations at Osawatomie State Hospital have reduced that facility's capacity, and emergency rooms are having to pick up the slack.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press as compiled by the KPR news staff.

A former nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital has filed a federal lawsuit against her former employer, accusing the hospital of Medicare fraud.

Kansas health officials are reviewing a federal appeals court ruling requiring the state to pay in-home health care workers minimum wage and overtime pay.

Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins has joined fellow Republicans in Congress in pushing for the privatization of the Medicare program.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press.

Cyberattacks on the company's computers compromised the personal data of nearly 390,000 Kansans.

Details are emerging about a proposed streamlining of services