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Live via Zoom:
Monday, October 6, 2025, 1:30- 3:30 p.m.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 1:30- 3:30 p.m.
Medicaid Fraud
Instructor: Kiel Kearney, Special Agent in Charge with the Inspector Generals' Office
- Participants will understand the history of the Medicaid Inspector General’s office, its statutory basis for existing and its duties.
- Participants will understand what Medicaid fraud is and how to identify it.
- Participants will understand how Medicaid fraud audits are developed.
- Participants will review several case studies, which include examples of Medicaid fraud in Caretaker Medical and PD Waiver/Medically Needy.
Live via Zoom:
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 10 a.m.- Noon
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 10 a.m.- Noon
Medicaid Eligibility
Instructor: Liz Long, Director of Working Healthy
- Participants will understand the process for application for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage.
- Participants will understand the basic income levels set for families and children to achieve Medicaid and CHIP eligibility.
- Participants will understand the process for application for Medicaid coverage.
- Participants will understand the basic income levels set for the elderly and individuals with disabilities to achieve Medicaid eligibility.
- Participants will understand the concepts of Protected Income Limit (PIL), spenddown and patient liability.
- Participants will understand presumptive medical disability and how it works.
Live via Zoom:
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 2- 3 p.m.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 2- 3 p.m.
Medicaid Eligibility - Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Instructor: Liz Long, Director of Working Healthy
- Participants will understand the process for application for Medicaid coverage when the individual is seeking HCBS.
- Participants will understand the basic income levels set for individuals who want to receive HCBS.
- Participants will understand the concepts of protected income limit (PIL) and client obligation.
- Participants will understand how functional eligibility works for individuals who want to receive HCBS.
Live via Zoom:
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 1:30- 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Incentivizing Employment: Working Healthy, WORK, and STEPS
Instructors: Liz Long, Director of Working Healthy and Billie Crawshaw, Working Healthy Senior Manager
- An overview of the KS Medicaid Buy-In and Working Healthy.
- An overview of WORK, the personal assistance program for Working Healthy.
- The importance of employment for people with disabilities.
Incentivizing Employment
- The difference between Title II benefits and Title XVI.
- That Social Security encourages people to test their ability to work.
- A brief insight into the provisions of Medical and Cash Work Incentives provided through the Ticket To Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999.
Social Security Benefits
- Descriptions of Adult Social Security Benefits
- Eligibility for Adult Social Security Benefits
- Social Security Benefits and KanCare Benefits
Live via Zoom:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 11 a.m.- Noon
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 2- 3 p.m.
Understanding Medicaid Annual Reviews
Instructor: Liz Long, Director of Working Healthy
- Better understand Medicaid annual eligibility reviews.
- Understand how to submit reviews.
- Understand how to access the Medical Consumer Self-Service Portal.
- Understand the importance of the facilitator authorization form and medical representative authorization form.
Computer Based Trainings open:
- Grievance, Appeals and State-Fair-Hearings Online Course
- History of Kansas Medicaid Managed Care (Recording)
- History of Kansas Medicaid Managed Care Online Course
- Kan Be Healthy: Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (Recording)
- Kansas Presumptive Medical Disability Team Recording
- Medicaid Overview (Recording)
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