A financial battle between Lawrence’s only hospital and the state’s largest health insurance network has left thousands of area residents uncertain about whether they should keep their longstanding health insurance plans for 2022.
But University of Kansas employees and other State of Kansas workers have been given a temporary reprieve on figuring out whether Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and LMH Health ...
KU Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer had been on the Lawrence campus for a grand total of nine days before she started working to shut it down.
It was the beginning of the pandemic, of course, and it won’t be a time any university administrator soon forgets. But when Bichelmeyer looks back at that time, there is another event a few weeks later that often stands out. It was a conversation with a Kansas City friend ...
All University of Kansas employees will need to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8 or risk losing their jobs, KU announced Friday.
Chancellor Douglas Girod said it is now clear that KU must comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden that requires full vaccination of employees who are working on projects or at locations involved in completing federal contracts.
“Because of the scope of the federal ...
LMH Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas met Friday afternoon but came up with no breakthrough on a plan to keep Lawrence’s lone hospital as part of the state’s largest health insurance network in 2022.
Early Friday evening, LMH provided a statement to stakeholders saying that it has rejected BCBS of Kansas’ offer for a 2022 contract, but that the Topeka-based insurance company — the largest in ...
A plan to make KU’s West Campus a business park with several thousand jobs is advancing and now includes proposals for a grocery store, 300 units of high-end housing, restaurants and other pieces of development.
A “national security innovation center” that would work on everything from cybersecurity to military projects also is envisioned at the site, and KU leaders confirmed they recently applied for a ...
Story updated at 5:49 p.m. Wednesday:
The state’s largest health insurance company and Lawrence’s only hospital are in contentious contract negotiations that may result in LMH Health no longer accepting Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas as a preferred provider.
Leaders of LMH Health on Wednesday warned area residents that there is a real possibility in 2022 that the hospital and its doctor's offices ...
