(Feb. 3, 2026) – Yesterday, the House Social Services Budget Committee met to review the budgets of the Department for Children and Family Services and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The committee considered a motion by Rep. Will Carpenter (R-El Dorado) to add $10 million in an add-on payment for hospitals providing adult behavioral health services, as calculated in the previous two budgets. The committee voted unanimously to add the funding. Other adjustments made to the KDHE-Health budget included:

• Reappropriating $11.8 million for the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
• Reappropriating Children's Health Insurance Program funding for breast cancer screening and the youth risk behavior survey
• Adding $800,000 State General Funds for psychiatric health networks
• Adding $700,000 for Project Access
• Adding $6 million for Medicaid dental rates
• Adding $125,000 for donated dental services
• Adding $6 million for federally qualified health centers
• Added funds for Pulsara to be allocated from the Rural Health Transformation Program, or, if not, to be backfilled by SGF
• Adding $263,000 for Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
• Funding for CHIP of $20 million

The committee will complete work on outstanding KDHE and KDADS items at their meeting later today.