2006 Kansas Code - 75-7411

      75-7411.   Same; contracts with state and local government agencies; delegation, exceptions. [See Revisor's Note] (a) Subject to the limitations of subsection (b), the director of health policy and finance may enter into a contract with one or more state agencies or local governmental entities providing for the state agency or local governmental entity to perform services for the division of health policy and finance or delegating to the state agency or local governmental entity the administration of certain functions, services or programs under any of the programs for which the director of health policy and finance or the division of health policy and finance is responsible.

      (b)   With respect to any plan or program that is subject to or financed in part under the federal social security act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., and amendments thereto, the authority of the director of health policy and finance or the division of health policy and finance to exercise administrative discretion in the administration or supervision of the plan or program and to issue policies and to adopt rules and regulations on plan or program matters shall not be delegated by the director of health policy and finance, other than to officials and employees of the division of health policy and finance. To the extent that the director of health policy and finance enters into a contract with a state agency or local governmental entity under this section, the other state agency or the local governmental entity shall not have the authority to change or disapprove any administrative decision of the director of health policy and finance or the division of health policy and finance or to otherwise substitute its judgment for that of the director of health policy and finance or the division of health policy and finance with respect to the application of policies issued or rules and regulations adopted by the director of health policy and finance for any plan or program that is subject to or financed in part under the federal social security act, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., and amendments thereto.

      History:   L. 2005, ch. 187, § 12; July 1.