Notice Of Billing Policy Change: Kansas Medical Assistance Program HCBS-Intellectual Developmental Disability Manual Updates

On September 1, 2016, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) released this notice to the Community Developmental Disability Organizations. The notice states that KDADS implemented a new policy that changes reimbursement for residential home- and community-based services (HCBS) for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) from monthly to daily billing. Previously KDADS calculated a daily rate for the level of service needed by people with IDD and paid residential provider organizations the same rate for each day in a month. Under the new policy, KDADS will pay only for the days that services are . . .