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KS Stat § 65-6201 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6201 Individuals in need of in-home care; definitions.

65-6201. Individuals in need of in-home care; definitions. As used in this act:(a) "Attendant care services" means those basic and ancillary services which enable an individual in need of in-home care to live in the individual's home and community rather than in an institution and to carry out functions of daily living, self-care and mobility.(b) "Basic services" shall include, but not be limited to:(1) Getting in and out of bed, wheelchair or motor vehicle, or both;(2) assistance with routine bodily functions including, but not limited to:(A) Health maintenance activities;(B) bathing and personal hygiene;(C) dressing and grooming; and(D) feeding, including preparation and cleanup.(c) "Ancillary services" means services ancillary to the basic services provided to an individual in need of in-home care who needs one or more of the basic services, and include the following:(1) Homemaker-type services, including but not limited to, shopping, laundry, cleaning and seasonal chores;(2) companion-type services including but not limited to, transportation, letter writing, reading mail and escort; and(3) assistance with cognitive tasks including, but not limited to, managing finances, planning activities and making decisions.(d) "Health maintenance activities" include, but are not limited to, catheter irrigation; administration of medications, enemas and suppositories; and wound care, if such activities in the opinion of the attending physician or licensed professional nurse may be performed by the individual if the individual were physically capable, and the procedure may be safely performed in the home.(e) "Individual in need of in-home care" means any functionally disabled individual in need of attendant care services because of impairment who requires assistance to complete functions of daily living, self-care and mobility, including, but not limited to, those functions included in the definition of attendant care services.(f) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery.History: L. 1989, ch. 191, § 1; L. 1990, ch. 233, § 5; Apr. 26.
KS Stat § 65-6202 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6202 Hospice certified to participate in medicare program may hold itself out to public as hospice or licensed hospice; prohibitions; enforcement.

65-6202. Hospice certified to participate in medicare program may hold itself out to public as hospice or licensed hospice; prohibitions; enforcement. (a) Each hospice located in this state which is certified to participate in the medicare program under 42 code of federal regulations, chapter IV, section 418.1 et seq. and amendments thereto shall be known and may hold itself out to the public as a hospice or as a licensed hospice so long as such hospice is certified to participate in the medicare program.(b) Prior to January 1, 1996, an agency, organization or other entity which is engaged primarily in providing hospice services but which is not certified to participate in the medicare program under 42 code of federal regulations, chapter IV, section 418.1 et seq. and amendments thereto may hold itself out to the public as a hospice.(c) On and after January 1, 1996, no agency, organization or other entity other than a hospice certified to participate in the medicare program under 42 code of federal regulations, chapter IV, section 418.1 et seq. and amendments thereto shall hold itself out to the public as a hospice or as a licensed hospice.(d) The secretary of health and environment may file for an injunction against any agency, organization or other entity or person to restrain or prevent any violations of the provisions of this section.History: L. 1994, ch. 6, § 1; Mar. 3.
KS Stat § 65-6204 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6204 Background information on certain applicants for employment; secretary of health and environment to provide for processing information requested.

65-6204. Background information on certain applicants for employment; secretary of health and environment to provide for processing information requested. The secretary of health and environment shall provide for the implementation of the processing of information requested from the department of health and environment on an incremental basis. This implementation shall be completed so that adult care homes and home health agencies may receive information required under this act [*] no later than July 1, 1998.History: L. 1997, ch. 161, § 3; July 1.* "This act" see, also, 39-970, 39-1404, 39-1411, 39-1434, 65-5117, 65-6204 and 65-6205.
KS Stat § 65-6205 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6205 Background information on certain applicants for employment; request for information by certain entities; exemption from civil liability for certain actions taken in good faith based on such information.

65-6205. Background information on certain applicants for employment; request for information by certain entities; exemption from civil liability for certain actions taken in good faith based on such information. (a) A community service provider as defined in K.S.A. 39-1803, and amendments thereto, a mental health center as defined in K.S.A. 65-4432, and amendments thereto, and an independent living agency as defined in K.S.A. 65-5101, and amendments thereto, may request for the purpose of obtaining background information on applicants for employment with such entity information:(1) From the Kansas department for children and families as to whether such applicant has committed an act of physical, mental or emotional abuse or neglect or sexual abuse as validated by the Kansas department for children and families pursuant to K.S.A. 38-2226, and amendments thereto;(2) from the Kansas department for children and families as to whether such applicant has been found to have committed an act of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a resident as contained in the register of reports under K.S.A. 39-1404, and amendments thereto, or an act of abuse, neglect or exploitation of an adult as contained in the register of reports under K.S.A. 39-1434, and amendments thereto;(3) from the department for aging and disability services as to whether such applicant has been found to have committed an act of abuse, neglect or exploitation of a resident as contained in the register of reports under K.S.A. 39-936 and 39-1411, and amendments thereto;(4) from the department for aging and disability services any information concerning the applicant in the state registry which contains information about unlicensed employees of adult care homes under K.S.A. 39-936, and amendments thereto.(b) No community service provider, mental health center or independent living agency shall be liable for civil damages to any person refused employment, discharged from employment or whose terms of employment are affected because of actions taken by the community service provider, mental health center or independent living agency in good faith based on information received under this section.History: L. 1997, ch. 161, § 4; L. 2006, ch. 200, § 111; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 271; July 1.
KS Stat § 65-6207 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6207 Definitions.

65-6207. Definitions. As used in K.S.A. 65-6207 to 65-6220, inclusive, and amendments thereto, the following have the meaning respectively ascribed thereto, unless the context requires otherwise:(a) "Department" means the Kansas department for aging and disability services or the Kansas department of health and environment, or both.(b) "Fund" means the health care access improvement fund.(c) "Health maintenance organization" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 40-3202, and amendments thereto.(d) "Hospital" has the meaning provided in K.S.A. 65-425, and amendments thereto.(e) "Hospital provider" means a person licensed by the department of health and environment to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital, regardless of whether the person is a federal medicaid provider.(f) "Pharmacy provider" means an area, premises or other site where drugs are offered for sale, where there are pharmacists, as defined in K.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, and where prescriptions, as defined in K.S.A. 65-1626, and amendments thereto, are compounded and dispensed.(g) "Assessment revenues" means the revenues generated directly by the assessments imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208 and 65-6213, and amendments thereto, any penalty assessments and all interest credited to the fund under this act, and any federal matching funds obtained through the use of such assessments, penalties and interest amounts.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 1; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 272; July 1.
KS Stat § 65-6208 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6208 Assessment imposed on hospital providers; rate; submission to United States centers for medicare and medicaid services; notice of approval.

65-6208. Assessment imposed on hospital providers; rate; submission to United States centers for medicare and medicaid services; notice of approval. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 65-6209, and amendments thereto, an annual assessment on services is imposed on each hospital provider in an amount not less than 1.83% of each hospital's net inpatient operating revenue and not greater than 3% of each hospital's net inpatient and outpatient operating revenue, as determined by the healthcare access improvement panel in consultation with the department of health and environment, for the hospital's fiscal year three years prior to the assessment year. In the event that a hospital does not have a complete 12-month fiscal year in such third prior fiscal year, the assessment under this section shall be $200,000 until such date that such hospital has completed the hospital's first 12-month fiscal year. Upon completing such first 12-month fiscal year, such hospital's assessment under this section shall be the amount not less than 1.83% of each hospital's net inpatient operating revenue and not greater than 3% of such hospital's net inpatient and outpatient operating revenue, as determined by the healthcare access improvement panel in consultation with the department of health and environment, for such first completed 12-month fiscal year.(b) Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any home rule unit or other unit of local government to license for revenue or impose a tax or assessment upon hospital providers or a tax or assessment measured by the income or earnings of a hospital provider.(c) (1) The department of health and environment shall submit to the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services any approval request necessary to implement the amendments made to subsection (a) by section 1 of chapter 7 of the 2020 Session Laws of Kansas and this act. If the department has submitted such a request pursuant to section 80(l) of chapter 68 of the 2019 Session Laws of Kansas or section 1 of chapter 7 of the 2020 Session Laws of Kansas, then the department may continue such request, or modify such request to conform to the amendments made to subsection (a) by section 1 of chapter 7 of the 2020 Session Laws of Kansas and this act, to fulfill the requirements of this paragraph.(2) The secretary of health and environment shall certify to the secretary of state the receipt of such approval and cause notice of such approval to be published in the Kansas register.(3) The amendments made to subsection (a) by section 1 of chapter 7 of the 2020 Session Laws of Kansas and this act shall take effect on and after January 1 or July 1 immediately following such publication of such approval.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 2; L. 2012, ch. 102, § 56; L. 2020, ch. 7, § 1; L. 2020, ch. 10, § 9; June 11.
KS Stat § 65-6209 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6209 Same; exemption for certain hospital providers.

65-6209. Same; exemption for certain hospital providers. (a) A hospital provider that is a state agency, the authority, as defined in K.S.A. 76-3304, and amendments thereto, a state educational institution, as defined in K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto, or a critical access hospital, as defined in K.S.A. 65-468, and amendments thereto, is exempt from the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto.(b) A hospital operated by the department in the course of performing its mental health or developmental disabilities functions is exempt from the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 3; Apr. 22.
KS Stat § 65-6210 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6210 Same; payment date for hospitals; delayed payment schedules; penalties.

65-6210. Same; payment date for hospitals; delayed payment schedules; penalties. (a) The assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, for any state fiscal year to which this statute applies shall be due and payable in equal installments on or before June 30 and December 31, commencing with whichever date first occurs after the hospital has received payments for 150 days after the effective date of the payment methodology approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services. No installment payment of an assessment under this act shall be due and payable, however, until after:(1) The hospital provider receives written notice from the department that the payment methodologies to hospitals required under this act have been approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services under 42 C.F.R. § 433.68 for the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, has been granted by the centers for medicare and medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services; and(2) in the case of a hospital provider, the hospital has received payments for 150 days after the effective date of the payment methodology approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services.(b) The department is authorized to establish delayed payment schedules for hospital providers that are unable to make installment payments when due under this section due to financial difficulties, as determined by the department.(c) If a hospital provider fails to pay the full amount of an installment when due, including any extensions granted under this section, there shall be added to the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, unless waived by the department for reasonable cause, a penalty assessment equal to the lesser of:(1) An amount equal to 5% of the installment amount not paid on or before the due date plus 5% of the portion thereof remaining unpaid on the last day of each month thereafter; or(2) an amount equal to 100% of the installment amount not paid on or before the due date.For purposes of subsection (c), payments will be credited first to unpaid installment amounts, rather than to penalty or interest amounts, beginning with the most delinquent installment.(d) The effective date for the payment methodology applicable to hospital providers approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services shall be the date of July 1 or January 1, whichever date is designated in the state plan submitted by the department of health and environment for approval by the centers for medicare and medicaid services.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 4; L. 2004, ch. 141, § 1; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 273; July 1.
KS Stat § 65-6211 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6211 Same; notice of assessment; method of payment; assessment adjustment when a hospital ceases operations.

65-6211. Same; notice of assessment; method of payment; assessment adjustment when a hospital ceases operations. (a) After December 31 of each year, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, and on or before March 31 of the succeeding year, the department shall send a notice of assessment to every hospital provider subject to assessment under this act.(b) The hospital provider notice of assessment shall notify the hospital provider of its assessment for the state fiscal year commencing on the next July 1.(c) If a hospital provider operates, conducts or maintains more than one licensed hospital in the state, the hospital provider shall pay the assessment for each hospital separately.(d) Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, in the case of a person who ceases to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital in respect of which the person is subject to assessment in K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, as a hospital provider, the assessment for the state fiscal year in which the cessation occurs shall be adjusted by multiplying the assessment computed under K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of the days during the year during which the provider operates, conducts or maintains a hospital and the denominator of which is 365. Immediately upon ceasing to operate, conduct or maintain a hospital, the person shall pay the adjusted assessment for that state fiscal year, to the extent not previously paid.(e) Notwithstanding any other provision in this act, a person who commences operating, conducting or maintaining a hospital shall pay the assessment computed under subsection (a) of K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, in installments on the due dates stated in the notice and on the regular installment due dates for the state fiscal year occurring after the due dates of the initial notice.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 5; Apr. 22.
KS Stat § 65-6212 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6212 Hospital provider assessments not imposed or discontinued, when; disbursement or refund of proceeds.

65-6212. Hospital provider assessments not imposed or discontinued, when; disbursement or refund of proceeds. (a) The assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, shall not take effect or shall cease to be imposed and any moneys remaining in the fund attributable to assessments imposed under K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them if the payments to hospitals required under subsection (a) of K.S.A. 65-6218, and amendments thereto, are changed or are not eligible for federal matching funds under title XIX or XXI of the federal social security act.(b) The assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6208, and amendments thereto, shall not take effect or shall cease to be imposed if the assessment is determined to be an impermissible tax under title XIX of the federal social security act. Moneys in the health care access improvement fund derived from assessments imposed prior thereto shall be disbursed in accordance with subsection (a) of K.S.A. 65-6218, and amendments thereto, to the extent that federal matching is not reduced due to the impermissibility of the assessments and any remaining moneys shall be refunded to hospital providers in proportion to the amounts paid by them.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 12; Apr. 22.
KS Stat § 65-6213 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6213 Assessment imposed on health maintenance organizations, rate.

65-6213. Assessment imposed on health maintenance organizations, rate. The department shall assess each health maintenance organization that has a medicaid managed care contract awarded by the state and administered by the department an assessment fee that equals 5.9% of nonmedicare premiums collected by that health maintenance organization. The assessment shall be calculated by reference to information contained in the health maintenance organization's statement filings for the previous state fiscal year.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 7; Apr. 22.
KS Stat § 65-6214 (2021)
2021 Kansas Statutes|Chapter 65 - Public Health|Article 62 - Miscellaneous Provisions|65-6214 Same; payment date for health maintenance organizations; delayed payment schedules; penalties.

65-6214. Same; payment date for health maintenance organizations; delayed payment schedules; penalties. (a) The assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6213, and amendments thereto, for any state fiscal year to which this statute applies shall be due and payable in equal installments on or before June 30 and December 31, commencing with whichever date first occurs after the health maintenance organization has received payments for 150 days after the effective date of the payment methodology approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services. No installment payment of an assessment under this act shall be due and payable, however, until after:(1) The health maintenance organization receives written notice from the department that the payment methodologies to health maintenance organizations required under this act have been approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services and the state plan amendment for the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6213, and amendments thereto, has been granted by the centers for medicare and medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services; and(2) the health maintenance organization has received payments for 150 days after the effective date of the payment methodology approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services.(b) The department is authorized to establish delayed payment schedules for health maintenance organizations that are unable to make installment payments when due under this section due to financial difficulties, as determined by the department.(c) If a health maintenance organization fails to pay the full amount of an installment when due, including any extensions of time for delayed payment granted under this section, there shall be added to the assessment imposed by K.S.A. 65-6213, and amendments thereto, unless waived by the department for reasonable cause, a penalty assessment equal to the lesser of:(1) An amount equal to 5% of the installment amount not paid on or before the due date plus 5% of the portion thereof remaining unpaid on the last day of each month thereafter; or(2) an amount equal to 100% of the installment amount not paid on or before the due date.For purposes of this subsection (c), payments shall be credited first to unpaid installment amounts, rather than to penalty or interest amounts, beginning with the most delinquent installment.(d) The effective date for the payment methodology applicable to health maintenance organizations approved by the centers for medicare and medicaid services shall be the date of July 1 or January 1, whichever date is designated in the state plan submitted by the department of health and environment for approval by the centers for medicare and medicaid services.History: L. 2004, ch. 89, § 8; L. 2004, ch. 141, § 2; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 274; July 1.