Latest nonprofit presser aims at raising public awareness for locals who navigate through so many coughing locals at the conclusion of the holidays . . . Check-it:
"KC Health Collaborative released a scorecard it says will provide a starting point for solving health inequities in Kansas City. It hopes that offering concrete information about specific gaps and identifying who slips through them gives policy makers and business leaders tools to make changes.
"The scorecard relies on data from commercial health insurance claims paid between 2020 and 2023, and covers a range of topics from health screenings, disease diagnoses and money spent per person on doctors and medicines.
"Not surprisingly, your cost is going up. The scorecard concludes health care spending in Kansas City jumped more than 9% overall during the three years, to $7,658 per person in 2023 from $5,846 in 2020.
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Kansas City just got a new health care report card. Spoiler: It has room to improve
KC Health Collaborative said the community scorecard, a tally of doctors visits, health screenings and health care costs, is the start of a data-backed story it hopes to tell about health equity in Kansas City.
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