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KHSC Board Meeting - Jan. 28

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Senate Debates the Budget Bill

Budget Plan (Mar. 13, 2024) – Today, the Kansas Senate debated the state budget bill Substitute for Senate Bill 514. Highlights from the bill include:

Health

$78.7 million, including $30 million State General Fund, to increase Medicaid outpatient hospital reimbursement rates in fiscal year 2025 and $157.4 million, including $60 million SGF, to increase Medicaid outpatient reimbursement rates in FY 2026
$15 million SGF in on-time funding for childcare sustainability and workforce grants
$25.7 million, including $10.3 million SGF, to increase physician provider codes by 8.0 percent
$10 million to support hospitals with adult inpatient behavioral health services in Kansas
$6.2 million, including $2.4 million SGF, to increase PACE Medicaid rates to 90 percent of the amount that would otherwise have been paid if the participants were not enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
$25.7 million, including $10.3 million SGF, to increase physician provider codes by 8.0 percent
$10 million to support hospitals with adult inpatient behavioral health services in Kansas
$6.2 million, including $2.4 million SGF, to increase PACE Medicaid rates to 90 percent of the amount that would otherwise have been paid if the participants were not enrolled in PACE
$20.7 million SGF to cover the shortfall in contract nursing staff costs to Larned State and Osawatomie State Hospitals

Long-Term Care

$30.1 million, including $11.7 million SGF, to continue the Medicaid add-on to nursing facilities in 2024 at a rate of $10 per Medicaid day

Other Items

$10 million SGF for Moderate Income Housing program to support housing and workforce development through a revolving loan fund
$10 million in additional grants to primary airports
$5.0 million SGF to the Children's Cabinet to provide public-private partnership establishing ongoing sustainable, community-level childcare solutions with the Dane G. Hansen Foundation counties
$14.3 million for apprenticeship programs at two-year institutions
$4.4 million SGF for the Fight Against Fentanyl effort

The Senate will continue to work into the late afternoon on the budget.

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