Ending the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Temporary Waivers
In April 2020, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Kansas Medicaid program began offering you an extra 120 days to ask for a state fair hearing. The Medicaid program allowed the extra days if you received a notice from us with a negative decision about eligibility or a fee-for-service (FFS) health care service. We added the extra 120 days to the usual 33 days, which allowed a total of 153 days for you to ask for a state fair hearing. Although the COVID-19 public health emergency is still active, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services allows each State to decide when to end the offer of extra time. In Kansas, the last day the Medicaid program will offer you the extra 120 days to ask for a hearing will be on September 16, 2022. If you receive a notice of action dated on or before September 16, 2022, you can still have the extra 120 days to ask for a hearing.
State Fair Hearings:
If the notice of action we send you is dated on or after September 17, 2022, you will again have to ask for a state fair hearing within 33 calendar days of the date on the notice that we send you with our negative decision about eligibility or a FFS service. If you ask for a state fair hearing more than 33 calendar days after the date on the notice, your request will be late and you will not be able to have a hearing.