Kansas news and information

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed legislation Tuesday that that would make North Dakota the nation's most restrictive state on abortion rights, banning the procedure if a fetal heartbeat can be detected—something that can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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IPC The Hospitalist Company, a provider of hospitalist medicine and related facility-based services, has acquired two Wichita, Kan., practices—Kansas Inpatient Services and Kansas Long Term Care Physicians.
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The Kansas Health Information Network may be the first statewide exchange in the country to provide a personal health record portal for patients, according to network officials.
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A study that looked at scope-of-practice laws in six states concluded that the laws don't restrict the breadth of primary-care services that nurse practitioners offer patients, but the laws still affect payer policies which then curtail how and where NPs can practice.
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Six states were awarded nearly $300 million by HHS to implement payment and delivery changes to their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program plans.
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Kansas would face about $600 million in additional costs over the next 10 years if it opted to expand Medicaid as encouraged by the federal government's overhaul of healthcare, according to a report released by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's administration Friday.
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Mercy Health expanded its reach to 32 hospitals in four states following a deal in which 219-bed Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Crystal City, Mo., joined the system for undisclosed terms effective Feb. 1.
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—Statewide health information exchanges in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each using the federally developed secure messaging protocol. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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Statewide health information exchanges in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each other using the federally developed secure messaging protocol, the exchanges announced Tuesday.
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For several months after Truman Medical Center dropped its patient referral system because of cost, the hospital was processing 2,000 monthly patient referrals using only Microsoft Access.
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