We want to answer and debunk the legislature's efficiency study which proposes stealing $1 million in CDDO administrative funding, and closing 7 CDDOs. We think the plan merely spreads the work over the remaining CDDOs for no compensating funding enhancement. It's not an efficiency move; it's a move toward more insufficiency!
We hope to fix the step therapy bill (SB 341) to protect mental health and seizure prescriptions from being arbitrarily altered by State and MCO cost cutting moves.
We intend to keep up the testimony and commentary along with many other groups, to educate lawmakers on the need to slow the State's rush toward the integrated waiver model, without additional legislative scrutiny.
We hope to protect the integrity of early childhood programs by making sure no one does an end run around the current legislative position to retain tiny-K's place in KDHE.
And we hope for additional education opportunities to inform legislators about the negative impact of low reimbursement rates, and make recommendations about improving the practices and policies of the State's vocational Rehabilitation programs.
It is important that advocates stay engaged with legislators, because when communication is ongoing, we are far more able to stave off some of the mischief that is inflicted on unsuspecting programs who may have gone to sleep. And maybe, just maybe, legislators may do a few good things for us before they go home.
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