Kansas Governor Brownback Says Feds Will Allow Medicaid Overhaul

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Federal officials have granted Kansas permission to overhaul Medicaid, allowing the state to turn the $2.9 billion-a-year program for the needy over to three private insurance companies next year as planned, Gov. Sam Brownback announced Friday. The state already has awarded three-year contracts to Kansas subsidiaries of three multibillion-dollar, out-of-state companies and assigned each Medicaid participant to one of them so that the firms can begin managing the entire program in January 2013. The state covers medical services for about 395,000 poor, disabled and elderly Kansans . . .