Starting a Kansas Home Health or Personal Care Agency?

• Skilled Services HHA — holds the Kansas license that encompasses skilled services, HCBS waiver services, and nonmedical supportive care within the agency's approved scope.
• Medicare-certified HHA — holds applicable Kansas licensure and completes federal enrollment, survey, and certification requirements.
• Non-Medical Supportive Care Services HHA — provides chore, companionship, and permitted personal-care assistance under the nonmedical license.

Home Health and personal assistance have different enrollment, service-scope, personnel, oversight, and continuing-compliance requirements.

Yes. K.S.A. 65-5102 requires an agency that provides or holds itself out as providing covered home health, supportive-care, or attendant-care services to be licensed. Applicants should select the KDHE license matching their intended services.

The agency first establishes its Kansas business and Skilled Services licensure foundation, then completes Medicare enrollment through CMS-855A or PECOS, prepares certification documents, establishes compliant operations and staffing, and becomes ready for a KDHE or approved accreditation survey pathway.

KDHE describes Skilled Services as medical services that include nursing and an order from the patient's medical provider. The Skilled Services license can also encompass HCBS waiver services and nonmedical supportive care.

Only after the agency completes enrollment and certification requirements and receives an effective Medicare certification date. Kansas Medicaid likewise will not pay for services furnished before provider-enrollment approval.

CMS establishes the federal requirements. KDHE's Bureau of Facilities and Licensing administers state HHA licensing and federal certification activities; a Medicare applicant follows the applicable KDHE or CMS-approved accreditation survey pathway.

KDHE states that HCBS waiver program services require a Skilled Services HHA license because they may include medical services driven by a plan of care. Kansas Medicaid enrollment, service-specific approval, and KanCare plan requirements are separate.

KDHE lists chore and companionship plus assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, eating, medication reminders, transferring, walking, toileting, and continence care. Services must remain within the license, client plan, personnel competency, and professional scope.

No. Both are Kansas HHA license types, but their authorized scopes differ. The nonmedical license is limited to supportive-care services; the Skilled Services license encompasses skilled services and may also cover HCBS and nonmedical supportive care.

The applicant uses KDHE's current Non-Medical HHA application, authorization-for-release forms, Supportive Care Services attestation, instruction guide, supporting documents, and fee. Requirements should be verified immediately before filing.

Yes. Kansas HHA personnel screening is governed by K.S.A. 65-5117 and the state's criminal-record-check program. Agencies should use the designated Kansas process and maintain eligibility determinations, prohibited-offense review, and registry results in personnel records.

KDHE requests the applicable renewal application, annual report, attestation, supporting documents, and fee. K.S.A. 65-5104 addresses annual filing and potential license cancellation when required materials and fees are late.

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No. State and federal filing fees, entity and business licensing, Medicare or Medicaid enrollment, accreditation, background checks, insurance, office, personnel, survey expenses, software, mailing, and other government or third-party costs are separate unless expressly included in writing.

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