KanCare Oversight Committee: Medicaid Providers Share Concerns

The Kansas Health Institute Story reported on outcomes from yesterday's hearing of the Bob Bethell Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight Committee, including a number of concerns raised by Medicaid providers regarding timely reimbursement under the new Medicaid managed care model.  Click on the image to read the KHI story.

KanCare Oversight Committee to Meet Today

The Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Joint Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight will hold a series of hearings today in Room 548-S of the Kansas Statehouse. The 11-member legislative committee is chaired by Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook and co-chaired by Representative David Crum.  

The committee will receive updates from Brownback Administration officials on KanCare implementation, and will also hear from a large number of stakeholders and advocates on KanCare issues and concerns. Tom Laing, Executive Director of InterHab, will offer testimony to the committee on concerns related to the January 2014 inclusion of I/DD long-term supports and services within KanCare.

Today’s meeting represents the first of two approved days of hearings this fall for the oversight committee.