Assisted living in Kansas: how it is licensed.
Who licenses assisted living in Kansas, and what to check before you choose.
What Kansas calls it
In Kansas, assisted living is licensed under the term “Assisted Living Facility (licensed as an adult care home)”. Other states use different names, so it helps to know the exact term when you search.
Who licenses and inspects
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), Survey, Certification and Credentialing Commission is the agency that licenses these communities. It is the official place to check a community’s license and inspection history.
What assisted living costs in Kansas
The median cost of assisted living in Kansas is about $5,975 a month (about $71,700 a year) for a private one-bedroom in a community, based on the 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey. That is $225 a month below the national median of about $6,200, and ranks Kansas 30 out of 50 states from highest to lowest cost.
Your own cost depends on the community, the room size and the level of care. Ask each community for its full price list in writing, including care level fees.
Paying for care
Medicare generally does not cover long term custodial care.
Kansas runs an HCBS Frail Elderly waiver as an alternative to nursing home care, for people 65 and over who meet the Medicaid nursing facility threshold score, pass the FE functional assessment and qualify financially for Medicaid. Applications go through the local Aging and Disability Resource Center, which does the assessment. The state page lists services such as personal care, adult day care and medication reminders, and does not say whether assisted living room and board is covered, so ask the ADRC about that.
Checking a community
Kansas's Survey, Certification and Credentialing Commission licenses and inspects adult care homes. It runs annual unscheduled inspections on a rotation, plus unannounced inspections after complaints to its Adult Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation hotline. The page does not link a public search of survey results.
Help and complaints
Kansas Long-Term Care Ombudsman supports residents of long term care and their families.
Also worth knowing in Kansas
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services lists assisted living/residential health care facilities among the adult care homes it licenses, with annual license renewal submitted through the KOTA web application.
Sources we checked (October 2026)
Licensing rules change. We checked the pages below. Confirm with the state agency.
Questions
Who regulates assisted living in Kansas?
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS), Survey, Certification and Credentialing Commission.