Healthcare in Kansas

In the summer of 2011, the State of Kansas facilitated a series of Medicaid Public Forums where more than 1,000 participants engaged in discussions on how to reform Kansas’ Medicaid system. Forum participants from Topeka, Wichita and Dodge City produced over 1,500 comments and recommendations for reform. Recommendations were focused on the three segments of the Medicaid population:
• Children, Families and Pregnant Women,
• The Aged
• The Disabled

Learn more about Medicaid and the resources used by Kansas government officials in policy decision making.

U.S. Census charts the insured and noninsured:
http://blogs.census.gov/censusblog/2011/09/my-entry.html

Kansas Medical Assistance Program (KMAP) including Healthwave and Health Connect:
https://www.kmap-state-ks.us/

Kansas Medicaid Statistics:
http://www.kdheks.gov/hcf/medicaid_reform_forum/download/Kansas_Medicaid_Population_Demographics_Wichita_Dodge_City.pdf
Federal regulations regarding Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP):
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-02-02/pdf/2011-1686.pdf

Medicaid and Healthwave fact sheets:
http://www.kdheks.gov/hcf/healthwave/fact_sheet.html

Medicaid transformation:
http://www.kdheks.gov/hcf/medicaid_transformation/default.htm

Medicaid roundtable summaries:
http://www.kdheks.gov/hcf/medicaid_reform_forum/

Kansas Healthcare Market reports:
http://www.kdheks.gov/hcf/medicaid_reports/Health_Care_Market_Reports.html

Article contact: Kim Harp