It’s called “The Great Unwinding.” That’s what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have termed  a massive reversal of emergency health coverage incentives put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that many…

Rising property values and the high cost of labor and supplies translated to about a $30,000 increase in the county’s insurance rates for the coming year. Loren Korte with PSI Insurance met with commissioners on…

Most cow-calf producers face price risk. Likewise, most producers manage price risk, even if they do not have an explicit “price risk management strategy.” Three major price risk management strategies are self-insurance, marketing flexibility, and…

A wellness program could potentially help the county save money and improve the health of its employees, a company representative told commissioners on Tuesday. Tria Health, an Overland Park company, offers to be a middleman…

The cost of getting an appendectomy with private health insurance has soared since the early 2000s. So has the bill for a knee replacement. But the secrecy of prices negotiated between health care providers and…

Got a medical bill that seems too high? First step: Ask if there’s been a mistake. Next step, fight back. The tips below come from a dozen experts in law, medical billing and patient advocacy.…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The number of jobless workers in Kansas who filed initial unemployment claims last week was 12 times as high as it was the week before as measures to control the spread…

If there’s a lesson to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that Americans are left uniquely unprepared for such a crisis because our federal and state governments do a lousy job protecting us. Two…

Karen Pollitz, the study?s co-author. That complicates research. And patients wonder whether they?ll make it out the hospital door without bumping into an out-of-network assistant surgeon or radiologist. ?It just feels like a minefield, you…

By this point, everyone knows that the U.S. health-care system is fundamentally broken. But every plan to fix it runs into a fusillade of opposition. This dynamic could be seen in the reaction to the…