With health care reform, fully insured small group and individual health plans on and off the Exchange/Marketplace must cover essential health benefits beginning January 1, 2014. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated that its aim is to balance comprehensiveness, affordability and state flexibility in the development of Essential Health Benefits (EHB).
U.S. DOT has announced that Garden City, KS, will receive a TIGER Grant of $12,469,963 for the Southwest Chief Improvement Project.