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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Call for Participants in Benchmark Study
Marsh's Senior Living & LTC Industry Practice and Oliver Wyman's Actuarial Practice is inviting LeadingAge members to participate in an exclusive liability benchmark study...
LeadingAge Submits Response on CMMI VBID RFI
On February 16th, LeadingAge submitted a response to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) Request for Information (RFI) for the Value-Based Insurance...