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Aging providers urge continued PACE funding and state help to address senior nutrition wait lists
Summary
Providers and area agencies urged KDADS to keep PACE reimbursement at 90% of AWAP, expand nutrition funding, and share data on waiting lists so advocates can target legislative and grant requests.
Leaders of Kansas aging-service providers asked the Department for Aging & Disability Services and Hospitals (KDADS) on behalf of multiple programs to sustain and clarify funding for PACE, senior nutrition and home- and community‑based services.
In written and oral testimony, Sean Sullivan, president and CEO of Midland Care Connection, asked KDADS to “remain at the 90% level of the amount otherwise would have paid for other Medicaid programs” for PACE reimbursement and urged the agency to gather and share waiting‑list data for senior nutrition programs so providers can pursue targeted enhancements. “We typically ... provided about 1,200 meals a day,” Sullivan said; he reported that meal delivery fell from roughly 15,000 meals a month late last year to about 9,500 in June and that…
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