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2016 Statute



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65-116l. Use of funds for care, maintenance or treatment; limitations. No funds appropriated to the Kansas department for aging and disability services for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of K.S.A. 65-116i, and amendments thereto, shall be used for meeting the cost of the care, maintenance or treatment of any person who has communicable or infectious tuberculosis by a medical care facility on an inpatient basis to the extent that such cost is covered by insurance or other third party payments, or to the extent that such person or a person who is legally responsible for the support of such person is able to assume the cost of such care, maintenance, treatment or transportation. The secretary for aging and disability services in determining the ability of a person to assume such costs shall consider the following factors: (a) The age of such person; (b) the number of such person's dependents and their ages and physical condition; (c) the person's length of care, maintenance or treatment, if such person is the person receiving the care, maintenance or treatment; (d) such person's liabilities; (e) such person's assets; and (f) such other factors as the secretary deems important. The secretary for aging and disability services may adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

History: L. 1975, ch. 311, § 9; L. 2014, ch. 115, § 239; July 1.



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