The Kansas Hospital Association is working on an alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul.
Hospital Association Vice President Cindy Samuelson says that the association doesn't know what form its proposal will take.
But it has hired a firm headed by former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to help with a plan.
One option is to use additional federal funds promised under the federal health care law to help Kansans buy private coverage.
Arkansas and Iowa are taking that approach.
But Samuelson says the association is seeking "a unique Kansas solution."
