Healthcare and Insurance
The House of Representatives has passed a $484-billion relief bill that would fund small businesses and hospitals, and now the measure goes before President Donald Trump. The bill includes $320 billion to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small…
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St. Louis-based Cigna's Express Scripts has done a research report that says anti-anxiety and anti-depressant and anti-insomnia prescriptions filled between Feb. 16 and March 15 increased 21 percent year over year, likely due to the pandemic. "Americans have grown increasingly…
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Centene Corp. announced that its subsidiary Centurion has been awarded a contract by the Kansas Department of Administration to provide healthcare services in the Department of Corrections facilities. The two-year contract is expected to start on July 1 and…
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Though it's too early to call it a trend, there is some encouraging news out of Johnson County, Kan. On April 20, the latest date for which data has been provided, there was only one positive COVID-19 test recorded by…
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Physician Gary Morsch, who led a COVID Care Force team of 12 medical volunteers to combat the coronavirus pandemic at its New York epicenter—and preparing to head west to take up the fight again at a hard-hit Navajo Indian reservation.…
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Facebook, in a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, has launched a COVID-19 heat map that tracks the virus by county around the country. Viewing it on a local basis, one can zero in on particular counties in the Kansas City…
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A Conagra plant in Marhsall, Mo., is shutting down after about 20 employees there tested positive for COVID-19. The plant, which reportedly was already practicing social distancing and making sanitation efforts, is set to reopen on April 27. The company…
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Kansas has performed less COVID-19 tests than states with similar, or even smaller, populations, according to a recent partnership between the U.S. Census and other organizations, including this heat map, which shows the number of tests per state. As of…
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A day after the new Paycheck Protection Program depleted its $349 billion allocation, Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said today he was hopeful Congress would move quickly to add more funding to help companies cash-strapped by the COVID-19 pandemic. “It…
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A regional report by the Johnson County, Kan., government says that 88 percent of 2,339 area hospital beds in nine area hospitals are in use. When looking at intensive-care unit beds, the report found that 47 percent of those are…
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