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If you come down with a nasty case of COVID-19, here are the key things to worry about — moneywise — as you brace for the financial fallout.

With the coronavirus surging again, smaller hospitals in Kansas can't count on the life-saving help of bigger, nearby facilities.

Cases and hospitalizations have multiplied so swiftly over the past six weeks that Kansas finds itself far worse off going into this school year and fall season than during the pandemic last year.

Tuesday's announcement from Mayor Quinton Lucas follows new CDC guidance urging that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant COVID-19 spread.

Even before kids head back to school — mostly unvaccinated — Kansas is seeing a troubling spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.

Legal experts say just because you received care doesn't entitle a hospital to a bonkers high price. Still, fighting an unreasonable bill takes some work.

A dizzying array of temporary policy changes at the state and federal levels eased the switch to health care over telephones and laptops during the pandemic, but they may not last.

Based on evidence about the quality of care by advanced practice nurses, more and more states have ditched the requirement that nurse practitioners work only under contracts with doctors. But physicians say the arrangements protect patients.

When Veronica Mireles’ son complained he was in severe abdominal pain, she rushed him to a Wichita emergency room. No interpreter was provided for the…