Kansas Statutes 65-5002. Same; credentialing applications; fees
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-5002
- credentialed: means the formal recognition of professional or technical competence through the process of registration, licensure or other statutory regulation. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- Health care personnel: means those persons whose principal functions, customarily performed for remuneration, are to render services, directly or indirectly, to individuals for the purpose of:
(1) Preventing physical, mental or emotional illness;
(2) detecting, diagnosing and treating illness;
(3) facilitating recovery from illness; or
(4) providing rehabilitative or continuing care following illness; and who are qualified by training, education or experience to do so. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) Health care personnel seeking to be credentialed by the state shall submit a credentialing application to the secretary upon forms approved by the secretary. The application shall be accompanied by an application fee of $1,000. The secretary shall not accept a credentialing application unless such application is accompanied by the application fee and is signed by 100 or more Kansas resident proponents of credentialing the health care occupation or profession seeking to be credentialed. All credentialing applications accepted by the secretary shall be referred to the technical committee for review and recommendation in accordance with the provisions of this act and rules and regulations adopted by the secretary. The application fee established under this subsection (a) shall apply to every group of health care personnel which submits a credentialing application to the secretary on and after the effective date of this act and to every group of health care personnel which has not filed both a notice of intention and a fully answered application before the effective date of this act.
(b) The secretary shall remit all moneys received from fees under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the state general fund.