Weekly Recaps: February 21, 2024
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Affordable Housing Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Affordable Housing Update.
Nursing Home Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Nursing Home Update.
Workforce...
KanCare Application and CARE Assessment Delays – Send Feedback!
Just this week alone, we’ve heard from three separate providers on the challenges they have been facing with getting CARE assessments completed timely due to AAAs, CARE certificates being provided to the facility but...
KDHE to Host Quarterly Nursing Facility Collaboration Meetings
The Kansas Department for Health and Environment Medicaid Eligibility department plans to host quarterly nursing facility collaboration meetings starting this Friday, March 1st. The meetings will be separated out based on NF unit numbers,...
KDADS Appoints Aging Services Commissioner, David Anderson
Last week on Monday, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) appointed David Anderson as the new Aging Services Commissioner. Anderson resides in Western Kansas and comes to the position with over...
Change Healthcare Cyber Attack Impacting Healthcare Providers
Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group since 2022 and its Optum Solutions division, is a payment exchange platform used broadly by healthcare providers and was the victim of a cyberattack on February 21,...
CMS Clarifies How Veteran’s Access VA Benefits While on Medicare Hospice
On February 22nd, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Change Request (CR 13523) to clarify how dually eligible Veteran’s Affairs (VA) and Medicare beneficiaries can utilize VA benefits. Although Chapter...
LeadingAge to Congress: Support the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act
On February 26th, Katie Smith Sloan, LeadingAge President and CEO, sent a letter to members of Congress asking them to support the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act (H.R. 6585). The bill would increase access to...
Overtime Pay Flexibility Act Introduced
On February 16th, Representative Eric Burlison (R-MO) introduced the Overtime Pay Flexibility Act, which would prevent the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed overtime rule from taking effect. The Department’s proposal, released in September 2023, would...
Weekly Recaps: February 28, 2024
Each week, LeadingAge experts curate timely, helpful resources on a variety of topics important to aging services providers.
Affordable Housing Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Affordable Housing Update.
Nursing Home Weekly Update. Here is your weekly Nursing Home Update.
Workforce...
Kansas Capitol Happenings for Week Ending March 8
On Tuesday this week, the Government Affairs team provided oral proponent testimony in Senate Public Health and Welfare on HB2777, which prohibits the Fire Marshal and employees from utilizing body worn cameras on inspections....
LeadingAge Kansas Meets with KDHE Medicaid Eligibility and KDADS CARE to Address Issues
LeadingAge Kansas and the Kansas Healthcare Association met with leaders from the KDHE Medicaid Eligibility department and KDADS CARE team to discuss issues with processing delays and communication resulting in financial losses for providers....
Committee to Vote on Federal Minimum Staffing Mandate Bill
On March 6, the House Committee on Ways and Means will vote on H.R. 7513, the Protecting American Seniors’ Access to Care Act. The bill, cosponsored by Representatives Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) and Greg Pence...