Learn about health insurance coverage in Kansas. In the latest Annual Insurance Update, KHI highlights uninsured rates across Kansas, using the most recent data available. Almost a quarter million Kansans were uninsured in 2023, including 38,534 children and 201,273 adults. The overall uninsured rate in Kansas decreased from 12.6 percent in 2009 — the year prior to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act — to 8.3 percent in 2023, a historic low. Despite this improvement, Kansas still experienced the 19th highest uninsured rate among all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Learn more in the Annual Insurance Update 2025, which provides a comprehensive overview of health insurance coverage in Kansas, including the kinds of insurance coverage that Kansans have, groups that are more likely to be uninsured and trends in coverage since 2009. The data year for this report is 2023, when the federal COVID-19 public health emergency was still in effect for a portion of the year.