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The Kansas Hospital Association looks forward to celebrating National Hospital Week next week, May 11-17. A toolkit of resources is available to assist members in their hospital week celebrations. The assets are online in the Hospital Week Toolkit folder. They include videos, social media posts, frames, a media release and more. AHA also resources hospitals can use.

Healthworks Board Meeting - May 22

KHA established a foundation for it's members in 1969 and redesigned it in 1998 as a 501(c)3 organization. Healthworks, previously the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, is funded through contributions, grants and educational fees.

KHSC Board Meeting - May 27

KHSC is a wholly owned subsidiary of KHA. Therefore, a secondary objective of KHSC is to support KHA in meeting its mission to serve hospitals. Its mission is to provide enhanced value to KHA members through evaluation and endorsement of selected vendors of services needed by the KHA membership. KHSC will be a valuable resource to Kansas health care facilities and KHA as they serve their constituents.

KHA Board Retreat - May 28-May 30

The Kansas Hospital Association has a 21-member board of directors. They meet at least five times a year. Each board member holds three-year terms, with a two-term limit. The board has a composition of members from all geographic areas of Kansas all sizes and types of member hospitals are represented. The board also includes two hospital trustees and two physician members. Other participants include American Hospital Association delegate.

KHIMA Educational Program - June 2-3

KHIMA is a component state association of the American Health Information Management Association.

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Provider Tax Update

KanCare (May 9, 2025) – This week, the 2024 uncompensated care costs pool payments to Prospective Payment System hospitals, funded by the provider tax, were made by Aetna and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Kansas. We anticipate receiving payment from the Sunflower Health Plan next week. The payment represents the total UCC amount for 2024. PPS hospital CEOs and CFOs received an email update with payment amounts on Wednesday, May 7.

The approval for increasing the tax rate for the provider tax program to 6 percent is still under review by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Kansas Hospital Association is working closely with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and our congressional delegation, to move the approval forward as quickly as possible.
--Audrey Dunkel

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