WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

LMH Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas reach agreement on keeping local hospital in health insurance network

Story updated at 6:18 p.m. Monday: The worrying can end for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas patients who feared they would have to start paying more expensive, out-of-network rates to receive care at LMH Health in 2022. LMH Health — Lawrence’s only hospital — and BCBS of Kansas — the state’s largest health insurance company — reached a three-year agreement Monday to keep the hospital and its ...

Heartland Community Health expects new location will bring new patients, greater appreciation for the nonprofit's mission

It makes sense that the largest piece of art in the new medical clinic for Heartland Community Health Center features hands. It is an approximately 40-foot-long mural by local artist Stephen T. Johnson that depicts a line of diverse hands spelling out the word “Heartland” in American Sign Language. Heartland is nothing if not about hands. The nonprofit’s mission involves providing a helping hand to ...

Lawrence on pace to collect an extra $4 million in sales tax revenues as economy continues to bounce back

Cross one more month off the calendar and add about $400,000 to the potential windfall Lawrence City Hall may have by the end of the year. The latest sales tax numbers from the state of Kansas show that Lawrence is still on track to have sales tax collections come in about $4 million greater than budgeted in 2021. The October report — which due to normal reporting delays actually measures sales made ...

Groupon says fake Lawrence restaurant offer was made by fraudster, refunds purchases and will donate $1K to Just Food

I guess you could say we have a modern-day Hamburglar on our hands. A false Groupon ad for Lawrence’s Burgers by Biggs that we reported on earlier this week indeed was the act of a criminal and has become the subject of a criminal complaint, Groupon told me. I’m not sure how likely it is that anyone is going to get apprehended for the fraud, but Groupon said it has refunded the money of every customer who ...

West Lawrence home gets to keep its artificial palm trees; other homes may get to add them too

There indeed is still a west Lawrence home where you can get a quick fix of the tropics regardless of the season, thanks to several artificial palm trees in the yard. And now, there is some possibility — at least for the moment — that your or your neighbor’s yard could have them too. You may recall in March that we reported that the home at 5113 Cedar Grove Way stood out because it had four full-sized ...

Restaurant owner wants consumers to beware of false Groupon ad, is seeking answers on how often this happens

Updated 3:40 p.m. Sometimes a deal that is too good to be true is easy to spot, and Doug Holiday spotted this one fairly quickly. A customer was expecting to get $70 worth of food and drinks at Lawrence’s Burgers by Biggs for $39 because she had purchased a Groupon deal. What was the key to spotting this too-good-to-be-true deal? That’s easy. Holiday is the owner of Burgers by Biggs, and he had never ...