The Children’s Initiatives Fund: A Look at Past and Future The Children’s Initiatives Fund (CIF) plays a large role in funding children’s programs in Kansas, in the past many programs that received CIF funding focused on early childhood, health, mental health and child welfare. The link below is an Issue Brief developed by the Kansas Health ...
Updated Schedule for Rapid Response Calls On Thursday, March 28, time allotted for the Rapid Response Call will be increased in length by 30 minutes, with the call open from 9-10:30 a.m. Starting April 2, the KanCare Rapid Response Call will be held three times per week in preparation for any issues related to the April 4 ...
Action Needed: Medicaid Payment Increase, eligible pediatricians must sign up to receive it. As KAAP has noted in previous mailings (as part of the ACA payments to Medicaid), providers are scheduled to increase to Medicare rates effective January 1, 2013. Providers won’t receive payments reflecting this increase immediately. The State must first submit a State Plan ...
Fiscal Cliff Update Over the past several weeks, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) have begun discussing a “grand bargain” that would help avoid what has become known as the “fiscal cliff,” so-called because of several measures that could raise tax rates and reduce spending at the same time. This month, Congress must decide ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 20, 2012 KDHE Contact: KDADS Contact: Miranda Steele Angela de Rocha (785) 296-5795 (785) 250-8113 msteele@kdheks.gov Angela.derocha@kdads.ks.gov KanCare Implementation Activities Reporting Now Online Public Listening Session, Member Webinar Added to Outreach Events TOPEKA— The State of Kansas has begun posting to a dedicated web page the documents outlining implementation activities in preparation for the Jan. 1, 2013, ...
When the Affordable Care Act—called Obamacare by some—is fully implemented in 2014, all individual and small group health insurance policies will have to include a package of so-called “essential health benefits.” The law sets out 10 broad categories of coverage, but allows each state to determine the specific items and services that are included. The ...
KAAP is pleased to see that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The ACA offers coverage for children that includes the “ABC’s”, Access to health care services, age-appropriate Benefits in a medial home and health care Coverage for all children in the United States. AAP has endorsed ...
Governor Brownback announced today the three managed care companies who will provide Medicaid services across the state as part of his push to remake the Medicaid program in Kansas. The three winning companies were: Amerigroup UnitedHealthcare Sunflower State Health Plan a subsidiary of Centene To learn more about this announcement click here to go to the KHI article.
Medicaid and CHIP, collectively known as HealthWave, provide health insurance for more than 230,000 Kansas children. Medicaid has become a significant part of the discussion surrounding the state budget, and a recent proposal to reform Medicaid makes the topic even more important. This brief provides an overview of Medicaid’s role in children’s health care and ...
Efforts by the AAP and its members have led to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) reversing its recent decision to not publish RVUs for CPT code 96110 (Developmental Screening). CMS responded to the concerns of AAP leadership and AAP members who filed comments objecting to the removal of published values for payment ...
We are pleased to announce that KAAP has a dedicated email set up to answer your questions about immunizations in the practice...
