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Committee restores KDHE reappropriations, backs CHIP and behavioral health funding, trims dental ask
Summary
Committee members restored KDHE reappropriations, approved CHIP-related restorations and funding for inpatient behavioral health and several public-health programs, approved lower-than-requested Medicaid dental funding, and asked KDHE for fiscal notes on wheelchair and anesthesia payment proposals.
The Committee on Social Services Budget reviewed the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) budget and approved a series of restorations and program investments while flagging several items for follow-up fiscal analysis.
Amanda, committee staff, opened KDHE testimony by noting lapsed reappropriations of roughly $19 million in SGF and CIF reappropriations in the current year and that the governor’s budget restored many reappropriations in full. She flagged FY27 priorities that included possible funding for CHIP, items tied to CMS final rules that require system (Gainwell) changes, adult inpatient behavioral health, and several children’s public-health grants.
The committee approved Representative Carpenter’s motion to reappropriate approximately $11.8 million in special enhanced FMAP funds back into KDHE’s budget to avoid losing those funds. Representative Orpiza moved to restore a package of KDHE reappropriations the Senate had not retained; that motion (including CHIP,…
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