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
- Kansas Legislature to get briefing next week on proposed overhaul of Medicaid rules
- 09:43 a.m., September 14, 2011 Updated 03:52 p.m.
- Kansas lawmakers get a briefing next week on an initiative to consider changes in the state’s Medicaid program.
- U.S. Senate battle threatens to derail Kansas budget
- June 16, 2010
- A battle in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday threatened to put a $130 million hole into the delicately balanced Kansas state budget.
- Parkinson urges senators to support increase in Medicaid funding for states
- June 10, 2010
- Gov. Mark Parkinson on Thursday urged Kansas’ U.S. senators to vote for an extension of increased federal Medicaid funding.
- Medicare drug plan to change
- December 27, 2009
- Beginning Jan. 1, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will reimburse Part D sponsors only for FDA-approved drugs.
- 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.
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