(July 11, 2025) – This year, the Kansas Hospital Association has been working broadly to tell the hospital finance story with a financial awareness campaign. KHA initiated these efforts with our annual campaign focused on economic impact, followed by an updated financial infographic that highlights Kansas hospitals' overall financial challenges. We then launched a one-page infographic on Medicaid, followed by a one-page infographic on Medicare, and then an infographic on Commercial Payers.
This week, KHA is sharing with our members a final area of focus: Financial Stability Solutions. We hope this new infographic, focusing on possible solutions to the multiple challenges facing hospitals, is a helpful resource. Providers (hospitals and physicians), payers (employers, government programs and individuals), processors (commercial insurers like Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and United), policymakers (state and federal) and patients all have a role to play in stabilizing the financial challenges facing Kansas hospitals. Without change, hospitals’ abilities to provide essential health care services are threatened.
Resources to help our members tell the story about health care finance are available in Box.com. It includes print resources, template social media posts and other communications tools. We hope all these tools will help hospitals to have meaningful conversations about financial challenges and make positive changes. If you have questions about this campaign, please contact Cindy Samuelson at csamuelson@kha-net.org. If you have questions about hospital finance, please contact Shannan Flach at sflach@kha-net.org.
--Shannan Flach