Access to Care
Rural hospitals provide essential health care services. Yet because of their small size, modest assets and financial reserves, and higher percentage of Medicare patients, they face great pressures as government payments decline.
The Critical Access Hospital program is part of a larger federal program, the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (FLEX) program. The FLEX program is administered by the Kansas Rural Health Options Project (KRHOP).
The electronic health record and the ultimate exchange of health information will change the face of access, quality and the cost of health care delivered in Kansas.
340B Kansas
340B creates healthier Kansas communities.
See how the 340B program gives more Kansans access to life-saving medications and care close to home.
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Information and data on Labor and Delivery in Kansas.
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The Affordable Care Act created new competitive private health insurance marketplaces – called the Affordable Insurance Exchanges or “Exchanges” – that will provide millions of Americans and small businesses with access to affordable coverage.
Defining the community benefits hospitals provides to the community has become more than just a mission of community hospitals. It is also a legal obligation. Many reporting requirements exist including the new Internal Revenue Service 990 Schedule H.


KHC and KHA to Release Issue Briefs on Emergency Department Visits

The Kansas Healthcare Collaborative and the Kansas Hospital Association are partnering to release a series of issue briefs on Emergency Department visits in Kansas, using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators. In September 2023, AHRQ released a new group of area-based quality measures called Emergency Department Prevention Quality Indicators. Five PQE measures reflect ED visit rates for potentially preventable ED visits. The PQEs are area-based measures, meaning they are evaluated and reported for geographic areas, usually counties. The PQEs are "avoidable use" measures in that they identify conditions sensitive to the health status of a county's population (or other area) and the availability and quality of health care services in the county. PQEs are not used to measure quality at the hospital level. KHA and KHC hope the results in the issue briefs will be useful to hospitals and other organizations planning population health improvement activities, community health needs assessments or other health improvement efforts.