65-1,252. Division of health care finance; director; officers and employees. (a) There is hereby established, within the department of health and environment, the division of health care finance. The head of the division shall be director of health care finance, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the secretary of health and environment. The director shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary fixed by the secretary of health and environment and approved by the governor.

(b) (1) The secretary of health and environment shall appoint, in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas civil service act, such employees as may be needed, in the judgment of the secretary and director, to carry out the powers and duties of the division of health care finance.

(2) All officers and employees of the division of health care finance shall act for and exercise the powers of the director of health care finance to the extent that authority to do so is delegated by the secretary and director. Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 65-1,252 through 65-1,258, and amendments thereto, the secretary and director may organize the division of health care finance in the manner deemed most efficient.

History: Executive Reorganization Order No. 38, § 1; L. 2011, ch. 134, § 1; July 1.