Schools across the state are being asked to repay money after a Kansas Department of Health and Environment error resulted in more than $11 million in overpaid Medicaid funding.
The mistake was discovered after an audit of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment found discrepancies in data that had gone unnoticed for several years.
The data mistake affected Medicaid payments to school districts, including Wichita Public Schools, which budgets for and hires staff to provide Medicaid-eligible services to students based on KDHE calculations, according to WPS Chief Communications Officer Rachel Bell…