KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas is abandoning plans to block 11 people who have provided services to Planned Parenthood from participation in its Medicaid program, though the state still intends to cut those funds from the organization’s regional affiliates.
A lawyer for the state’s health department announced the move in a letter filed Monday with a Kansas City, Kansas, federal judge weighing two Planned Parenthood affiliates’ request to scuttle any halting of Medicaid reimbursements.