The Kansas Pharmacy Benefits Manager license
Pharmacy Benefits Manager
Provides claims processing or other prescription drug or device services to Kansas residents on behalf of a health plan. The license has been compulsory since 2023-01-01 and it is not transferable.
Course
None
This license has no pre-licensing course route.
Ways in
1
There is no state exam for this license.
Exam
n/a
Not required on any of the routes below.
Every way to qualify
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Route 1 Apply with a template contract and a network adequacy report
No state exam for this license
K.S.A. 40-3823(b) sets out the minimum contents of the application and none of them is a qualification of a person: the applicant's details, the name and professional qualifications of everybody responsible for the conduct of its affairs, an agent for service of process, a named employee to be the Department's primary contact, the corporate charter, a template contract carrying a dispute resolution process that ends with an independent fact finder, and a network adequacy report on the form K.A.R. 40-1-54 prescribes. The fee is nonrefundable and capped at $2,500, which is the largest application fee in the Kansas Insurance Code. The Commissioner has 90 days from a complete application to review it, and a licensee that fails to report a material change within 90 days can be penalized $500. K.S.A. 40-3821(d) carves out anybody holding a certificate of registration as an administrator under 40-3810.
Read at ksrevisor.gov on 2026-08-20
Kansas asks a pharmacy benefits manager for a template contract and a network adequacy report rather than for anything taught, and gives no examination for it, so there is nothing to sell.