Links
- Medicare.gov: Prescription Drug Coverage
Official Medicare page - Kansas Insurance Department
What you should know about Medicare Part D. - Kansas Department on Aging
Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Information
Phone numbers
- Medicare
800-633-4227 - Lawrence Senior Center
842-0543 - Social Security Administration
800-772-1213
The Capitol Report
Will Lawrence residents have to pay for KU's maintenance? - The Capitol Report
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Statehouse Briefing Blog
Key players
- The 2007 legislative session will chug along with shifting alliances on issue after issue. Here are some of the heavy hitters who will be driving the train.
Keeping track
- www.kansas.gov The general state of Kansas Web site with links to state agencies and numerous other resources.
- www.kslegislature.org The Legislature’s Web site. You can look up bills, track their progress and get committee information. You can also find out who your legislator is and how to get in touch with him or her.
- www.kslib.info The Kansas State Library Web site that has links to governmental Web sites that cover just about every issue in the public domain.
- To check on a bill or leave a message for a legislator by telephone, call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-432-3924.
- Doctors’ group criticizes claim that physicians improperly billed Medicaid
- January 14, 2009
- The Kansas Medical Society on Wednesday strongly criticized a recent state audit that alleged numerous suspicious billing claims in the state’s Medicaid program.
- Seniors face increasing Medicare premiums
- Part D plan counseling now available
- November 28, 2008
- Premiums for Medicare prescription plans are going up — some as much as 84 percent, according to the Kansas Department on Aging. Humana, one of the most popular plans in Douglas County, is raising its premium from $20.90 per month to $38.50, an 84 percent increase.
- Doctors can’t afford new Medicare patients
- Reimbursement rates aren’t keeping pace with rising costs, doctors say
- July 10, 2008
- Some Lawrence physicians are fed up with the lack of Medicare reimbursements and are cutting off new patients to help make ends meet. Dr. Matthew Buxton, of Free State Dermatology in Lawrence, is one of them. Since Jan. 1, he hasn’t been accepting new Medicare patients. “It just got to the point where I couldn’t continue to increase the number of patients I was seeing at that level of reimbursement,” he said.
- Meetings set to sort out Medicare changes
- November 6, 2007
- To say Medicare Part D is complicated is an understatement. The federal government’s prescription drug insurance program offers 52 plans in Kansas. In 2008, many of the plans’ monthly premiums will increase - some by as much as 159 percent. And others will decrease.
- Seniors better shop around for best plan
- November 5, 2007
- Before senior citizens begin shopping for the holidays, they might want to shop around for a better Medicare prescription plan. If they don’t, there could be a high price to pay.
- New policy may be costly
- Consumers may foot bill for infections, medical errors
- August 21, 2007
- A change in Medicare policy to no longer pay for hospital infections and medical errors has one Kansas health consumer group worried that the costs will be passed on to patients. Corrie Edwards, executive director of the Kansas Health Care Consumer Coalition, questions who will eventually end up paying when hospitals pick up the tab for infections or errors that occur on their grounds.
- Medicaid mess costing millions
- State must make up more than $90M in lost federal funds
- April 23, 2007
- It started several years ago. State officials were just getting over the budget meltdown from the post-Sept. 11 economic downturn, when another budgetary threat came barreling at them.
- Seniors find higher costs, more choices in Medicare drug plans
- Participants seek enrollment help
- November 16, 2006
- Delores Needham’s old health insurance just isn’t cutting it anymore.
- New round of Medicare headaches are possible
- Part D enrollees face more choices, higher costs
- October 6, 2006
- Next month, the maze of Medicare Part D will get even more complicated, with a dozen more prescription drug plans and more expensive premiums and deductibles.
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