State Employees Health Care Commission, Kansas

The Kansas State Employees Health Care Commission (HCC) was created by the 1984 Legislature through the enactment of K.S.A. 75-6501 et. seq.… to “develop and provide for the implementation and administration of a state healthcare benefits program. . . It may provide benefits for persons qualified to participate in the program for hospitalization, medical services, surgical services, non-medical remedial care and treatment rendered in accordance with a religious method of health and other health services.” Under K.S.A. 75-6504, the HCC is authorized to “negotiate and enter into contracts with qualified insurers, health maintenance organizations and other contracting parties for the purpose of establishing the state healthcare benefits program.”

The HCC is composed of five members. The Secretary of Administration and Commissioner of Insurance serve as members of the HCC as mandated by statute, while the Governor appoints the other three members. The statute requires one member to be a representative of the general public, one member to be a current state employee in the classified service, and one member to be a retired state employee from the classified service.

• Department of Administration--Health Care Commission Annual Report