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Kansas City hospitals are suing hundreds of patients over unpaid medical bills every year (opens the original)
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On Tuesdays at 9 a.m., Jackson County Circuit Judge R. Travis Willingham’s downtown courtroom fills up with defendants who are often guilty. They are guilty of missing credit card payments, falling behind on small loans or failing to pay down something bought on credit. Occasionally, though, the people who end up on Willingham’s high-volume collections docket are guilty of getting sick and not paying the bill that came later from a hospital or doctor. Patient advocates said that kind of guilt is
Wyandotte County will vote in November on new sales tax to fund a permanent homeless shelter (opens the original)
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A permanent emergency shelter for people who are unhoused could finally be in the cards for Wyandotte County if voters approve a proposed health sales tax in November. The ¼-cent special purpose tax, which the county’s Board of Commissioners endorsed Aug. 20, would initially generate approximately $12 million annually and last for 10 years. With inflation, said Alan Howze, interim county administrator, the tax could bring in nearly $140 million to fund health-related needs over the decade. Accor
Kansas City hospitals are seeing more patients without insurance — and expect many more (opens the original)
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Colette Lasack, who oversees billing for the $5.4 billion University of Kansas Health System, worries about every patient who walks through the door without insurance. Recently, those worries have been multiplying. As federal policy changes begin to put health insurance out of reach for more people, a growing number of patients are returning to the ranks of the uninsured. That makes it harder — if not impossible — for them to afford routine healthcare and increases the likelihood that they will
Childhood vaccine rates could get worse as demand for shots dips in Kansas City (opens the original)
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Two of the Kansas City area’s largest public health departments are seeing a significant drop in demand for vaccinations. The Kansas City Health Department said vaccine traffic has fallen as much as 30% from a year ago, while the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment reports a 20% decline. The numbers are consistent with recent trends in vaccination rates, which have been especially evident among children. Nearly 6% of Missouri kindergartners received a religious exemption for the
Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood gets millions in EPA funds to clean up lead-tainted soil (opens the original)
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The Douglass-Sumner neighborhood in northeast Wyandotte County will receive nearly $4 million to clean up 54 vacant lots contaminated with lead and gas vapor. The grant funding from an Environmental Protection Agency program aimed at restoring parcels of land known as "brownfields" was among the 20 largest awards made nationwide through the program this year. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, received the full $3.7 million it applied for — more than 174 other co
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