Kansas Medicaid rates cut by close to 25%

Starting this month Kansas primary care physicians will be paid less for seeing Medicaid patients.

With the expiration of the Affordable Care Act the cut in payments to primary care providers in Kansas will be close to 25 percent. The change is expected to impact about 2,500 physicians in the state.

The reduction in payments rescind a two-year incentive package from the Affordable Care Act. The package expired on Dec. 31. To learn more, click here to read the in-depth article posted this week by KHI News.