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Overview
This program offers people with disabilities who are working or interested in working, the opportunity to get or keep Medicaid coverage. Benefits Planning Assistance and Outreach (BPAO) Specialists across Kansas are available to help review benefits, review impact of returning to work, and answer questions. The seven regions, the city, contact phone number and counties in each region are listed below.

Statewide toll free number, (800) 449-1439 (V/TTY).

Working Healthy Web Site
Working Healthy information is also avaialble as a map.

Benefits Planning Academy Brochure - training for case managers, independent living specialists, supported employment workers, etc.

Regions
Region One: Kansas City, Terry Cronin, (913) 279-7173. Counties include Douglas, Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte.

Region Two: Topeka, Jolynn Foltz, (785) 296-5816. County included Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Marshall, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Republic, Riley, Saline, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, and Washington.

Region Three: Hays, Sherri Sherman, (785) 628-1066, ext. 268. Counties include Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Pawnee, Phillips, Rawlins, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace.

Region Four: Pratt, Karen Baessler, (620) 672-5955, ext 211. Counties include Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Kiowa, Lane, Meade, Morton, Ness, Pratt, Scott, Seward, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, and Wichita.
Region 5: Wichita, Lisa Langley, (316) 337-6459. Counties include Sedgwick.

Region 6: Emporia, Earl Williams, (620) 342-2505, ext 233. Counties include Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffee, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Lyon, Marion, McPherson, Morris, Reno, Rice, and Sumner.

Region 7: Pittsburg, Dan Hallacy, (620) 231-5300, ext 330. Counties include Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Franklin, Labette, Linn, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Osage, Wilson, Woodson.

To accommodate people with disabilities, auxiliary aides and services will be provided on request, and reasonable modifications to policies and programs will be made on request as a reasonable accommodation.
Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns
1000 SW Jackson Street Suite 100, Topeka, KS 66612-1354
1-800-295-5232 Toll-free Voice | 711 for Relay Service