Health for Kansas
This publication reports what care costs in Kansas, who is covered and who is not, what the health agencies count and where their counting stops. It is independent and nonpartisan, it sells nothing and recommends nobody, and every figure on it is printed with the document and the date it came from.
CC · Coverage and Costs
Reading a Kansas hospital bill
This page prints no prices. It prints the rules that decide which prices a hospital has to make public, and the dates from which they applied.
Three figures from the article; each is sourced and dated on that page.
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CC · Coverage and Costs
How KanCare works
The state pays a fixed monthly amount for every KanCare beneficiary whether or not they see anybody, which is exactly why the enrollment count is the reliable figure.
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RC · Rural Care
Distance to an emergency room
The federal file that lists Kansas emergency departments names 118 of them in 91 counties, and it is a certification record rather than a map of where care is.
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PH · Public Health
Heat and the working day
The Kansas evidence on heat is thin in a specific way: the exposure is measured every day at dozens of stations, and the illness has been counted properly once.
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CC · Coverage and Costs
Employer health coverage in Kansas
The largest health insurance market in Kansas is the one almost nobody shops in, and its prices are set one employer at a time.
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RC · Rural Care
The rural health transformation fund
Four totals for the Kansas award are in circulation across four federal and state documents, and no two of them are measuring quite the same thing.
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PH · Public Health
Nitrate in Kansas groundwater
Public water systems are sampled on a schedule and their failures reach a federal database. Private wells are sampled when somebody decides to sample one.
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