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Kansas fire chiefs request Medicaid coverage for $4 oxygen firebreaks after fatal home-oxygen fires
Summary
Kansas fire and emergency medical organizations asked the committee to appropriate $40,000 SGF so Medicaid can cover inexpensive oxygen fire‑break devices that responders say prevent oxygen-fed fires in homes using medical oxygen.
Chad Russell, fire chief of Andover and president of the Kansas State Association of Fire Chiefs, told the Committee on Social Services Budget that home medical oxygen has been linked to multiple fatal residential fires since 2018 and presented a low-cost prevention measure: an inline oxygen firebreak device that can stop the flow of oxygen if tubing ignites.
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