Kansas Medicaid State Plan

Medicaid is a federal-state partnership. Federal regulations provide a framework for each state to build a unique Medicaid program. States must all comply with some basic requirements such as: 

• Serving certain mandatory populations like poverty-level children and low-income pregnant women;

• Providing certain mandatory services like hospital care and physician services;

• Providing services that are “sufficient in amount, duration, and scope to reasonably achieve (their) purpose;” and,

• Providing services throughout the state