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Health for Kansas

How Kansans are doing, and what care costs here.

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.

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139 Kansas hospitals in the federal file
January 1, 2021 price transparency rule took effect
January 1, 2022 surprise billing rules applied from

Three figures from the article; each is sourced and dated on that page.

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    How KanCare works

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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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    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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