Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start
Find and verify Kansas providers
Use the CDDO provider-choice process, then verify operational facts directly with each provider.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Start the Kansas I/DD waiver pathwayBefore you start
- Exact waiver and authorized service, county, setting, schedule, communication needs, health and behavior supports, staffing, transportation, backup needs, accessibility, safeguards, and quality questions.
Who to contact
Use the official CDDO, KDADS program manager, KanCare Clearinghouse, MCO care coordinator, provider, FMS, Ombudsman, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- Ask the CDDO for the current provider choices affiliated for the exact service and area.
- Contact candidates and verify service scope, geography, capacity, intake, staffing, safeguards, experience, backup, accessibility, and fit.
- Confirm referral, authorization, provider acceptance, schedule, and first delivered service as separate events.
Expected next
A provider-choice list, direct responses, referral, intake event, selected provider, or documented access gap.
Save this proof
List date, candidates, responses, affiliation or enrollment checks, referrals, intake, decision, schedule, and start.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Return documented failed contacts and service requirements to the CDDO and MCO care coordinator and request additional choices or a correction plan.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Find and verify Kansas providers checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Start the Kansas I/DD waiver pathway, Find the Kansas HCBS entry point for your county, Use current KDADS I/DD and CDDO forms
Official resources
Limits
CDDO affiliation, provider enrollment, or a referral does not prove current capacity, acceptance, safety, quality, fit, authorization, staffing, schedule, or start. Kansas does not publish a real-time statewide capacity directory on the verified consumer route.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.