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Authors: Autumn G. Long and Alan L. Rupe, Kutak Rock LLP

Summary

  • Kansas limits the ability of group health insurance policies to impose pre-existing condition exclusions and requires special enrollment opportunities. See Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions.
  • Kansas prohibits issuers of group health insurance from discriminating on a number of different bases. See Nondiscrimination.
  • Kansas does not have general laws applicable to all individually identifiable health information, but does impose privacy requirements on a more limited basis. See Privacy.