Senate Ways and Means Committee Works KDHE Budget

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Senate Ways and Means Committee Works KDHE Budget

Budget Plan (March 12, 2025) – Today, the Senate Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Rick Billinger (R-Goodland), continued work on agency budgets. Senator Mike Fagg (R-El Dorado) made a motion to add $20 million State General Funds and $50 million All Funds to increase hospital outpatient Medicaid rates. The committee voted unanimously to include the funds to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment budget. The committee also saw the following amendments to the KDHE agency budget:

Added funds back to the KDHE budget for the Blue Cross Blue Shield daycare program
Gainwell technology contract additions for KDHE
Eliminate 30 federally funded positions
$750,000 Tuberculosis outbreak response
Language to re-determine KanCare on a month-to-month basis

The committee also saw the following amendments to the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services agency budget:

Increase to Meals on Wheels to make it a total of $3 million
$4 million from certified community behavioral health clinic planning grants would now go to fund increases in the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Services Block Grants for substance use treatment for low-income individuals
$5 million to add 180 slots to the Intellectual / Developmental Disability Waiver to increase new slots to 500 and reduce the waiting list cap in coordination
Proviso calling for an interim committee to strike language and instead replace with a study on providers taking KanCare
Brain Injury Waiver Rates, adding $3.5 million, to increase hourly rate to bring in line with Missouri
Delete $6 million for one-time grants that the House had added to the KDADS budget
Delete $830,000 for the renovation of a homeless shelter in Liberal
Add $195,000 for the creation of a directory of all long-term care centers across the state
Increase in adolescent substance abuse Medicaid rates
Delete $8 million for contracts at Osawatomie in the fiscal year 2026
Removed a portion of contract expenditures at Larned for contracts in fiscal years 2025 and 2026
$8 million for provider rates for those on IDD waivers

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