Kansas Office Of The Inspector General: Audit Of MCO Prior Authorization

On October 2, 2025, the Office of Kansas Attorney General Kris W. Kobach published findings of the audit of the Kansas Medicaid Managed Care Organizations’ (MCO) prior authorization process. The scope of the audit included an assessment of the complaints by Kansas hospital providers regarding the administrative burdens of [utilization management] UM processes and their impact on Medicaid MCO reimbursements from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023," according to the document . . .