Volume 42 - Issue 28 - July 13, 2023
State of Kansas
Board of Healing Arts
Notice of Hearing on Proposed Administrative Regulation
A public hearing will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 13, 2023, in the board room at the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, 800 SW Jackson, Lower Level – Suite A, Topeka, KS 66612, to consider a proposed amended regulation related to reentry active licenses.
This 60-day notice of the public hearing shall constitute a public comment period for the purpose of receiving written public comments on the amended regulation. All interested parties may submit comments prior to the hearing to Courtney Cyzman, General Counsel, at the Board of Healing Arts at the address above or via email to KSBHA_HealingArts@ks.gov. All interested parties will be given a reasonable opportunity to present their views, orally or in writing, concerning the proposed amended regulation during the public hearing. In order to provide all parties with an opportunity to present their views, it may be necessary to request each participant limit any oral presentations to five minutes.
Copies of the proposed amended regulation and the Economic Impact Statement for the proposed amended regulation may be obtained from the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, 800 SW Jackson, Lower Level – Suite A, Topeka, Kansas, on the agency website at http://www.ksbha.org/publicinformation/publicinformation.shtml, by contacting LeeAnn Hunter-Roach at 785-296-4502, or by emailing the agency at KSBHA_HealingArts@ks.gov.
Any individual with a disability may request accommodation in order to participate in the public hearing and may request the proposed amended regulation being considered and the economic impact statement in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to participate in the hearing should be made at least five working days in advance of the hearing by contacting Rikki Price at 785-296-8558 or at Rikki.R.Price@ks.gov. Individuals with hearing and/or speech disabilities may contact the Kansas Relay Center at 800-766-3777 for communication accommodations. Handicapped parking is located on 8th Street and in the building’s parking garage. From the street, both the west entrance to the building on Jackson Street and the north entrance on 8th Street are accessible.
A summary of the proposed amended regulation and the economic impact follows:
K.A.R. 100-6-6. Reentry active license; medicine and surgery and osteopathic medicine.
The proposed amendment to this regulation is solely technical in nature to better sync our MD and DO Reentry Active licensees with our IT system capabilities. With this amendment, MDs holding a Reentry Active license will renew with the MD renewal cycle (May 15-July 31); and DOs holding a Reentry Active license will renew with the DO renewal cycle (August 15-October 31).
The agency does not employ an economist. In the lay opinion of the agency staff, the technical amendment alone would not have an economic effect; the regulation as a whole, will have a positive economic effect on affected businesses because the regulation provides implementation of an available license type for physicians to reenter the practice of medicine.
The Board of Healing Arts is comprised of eight physicians (5-MD; 3-DO), three chiropractors, one podiatrist, and three public members. This amended regulation was developed during publicly noticed open meetings of the Board, and the Board is following all notice and open meeting hearing requirements associated with promulgating the amended regulation.
Susan Gile
Executive Director
Board of Healing Arts
Doc. No. 051317
