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President Trump has pledged to not make cuts to Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors, but Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for…
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Doctors and nurses are obviously essential to any primary care medical team. But when it comes to managing a chronic health condition, a social worker…
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This week, Missouri transferred the state-run health coverage of about 240,000 low-income adults and children to managed care plans run by three...
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The owner of a medical imaging company allegedly defrauded Medicare and Medicaid of more than $1.5 million, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday…
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It's been 40 years since Missouri voters have sent two Democrats to represent them in the U.S. Senate. If Jason Kander has his way, that will soon…
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Missouri hasn't had two Democratic U.S. Senators in 40 years, but Jason Kander is looking to change that. Today, we speak with the current Missouri…
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As part of a federal quality improvement effort, Kansas hospitals are reducing the odds that patients will get certain types of infections.And while that…
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When you make the jump into retirement, what will catch you? On this edition of Up to Date, the Smart Money Experts discuss the long-term prospects of…
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Editor’s note: Heartland Health Monitor partner KHI News Service conducted a months-long investigation into what led federal officials to deem Osawatomie…
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NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partnered to survey Americans last year about their perceptions of health care.Kansas was…
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Missouri became the first state to go on record opposing a proposed merger of insurance giants Humana and Aetna, saying the combination would create an…
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital is forcefully denying fraud allegations made in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former employee.The lawsuit was originally…