HOSPITAL · CCN 170122
VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA
Physician affiliations & referral network
WICHITA, KSFY 2025
Affiliated physicians
255
External referring physicians
964
Top affiliated specialty
Family Practice
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
70,825
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
35
31
27
21
18
11
11
9
9
8
6
6
AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA (255 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 255.
REFERRAL NETWORK
Who refers patients here
External physicians who share patients into this hospital's affiliated providers, ranked by shared Medicare beneficiaries.
| Referring physician | Specialty | Shared beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|
| ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC. | — | 19,722 |
| County Of Sedgwick | Ambulance Service Provider | 7,265 |
| Laboratory Corporation Of America | Clinical Laboratory | 6,831 |
| WESLEY MEDICAL CENTER LLC | — | 5,235 |
| KADISON, HERBERT | — | 4,235 |
| James Degner | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,595 |
| Eddy Lucas | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,136 |
| ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL ST TERESA INC. | — | 2,250 |
| KANSAS HEART HOSPITAL, LLC | — | 1,944 |
| MELEAN, JAIME | — | 1,677 |
| Thomas Higgins | Emergency Medicine | 1,445 |
| NEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | — | 1,369 |
| KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER LLC | — | 1,212 |
| Ellen Borst | Family Practice | 1,210 |
| Dennis Ross | Nephrology | 1,186 |
| George Reader | Interventional Cardiology | 1,096 |
| LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS | — | 1,026 |
| STANGL, ROBERT | — | 875 |
| NPI 1255335535 | — | 862 |
| RADIOLOGY SERVICES CORPORATION | — | 854 |
| Hussam Farhoud | Cardiology | 790 |
| Kimberly Taylor | Diagnostic Radiology | 788 |
| KANSAS SPINE & SPECIALTY HOSPITAL, L.L.C. | — | 747 |
| PATTON, JAMES | — | 742 |
| GILE, ROBERT | — | 733 |
Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). A directional edge is a proxy for referral, not a documented referral; pairs below 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.
CASE MIX
Top procedures by volume
Highest-volume MS-DRGs from CMS inpatient claims (latest reporting year per code).
| MS-DRG | Discharges |
|---|---|
| 871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC | 593 |
| 291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 223 |
| 885PSYCHOSES | 223 |
| 193SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 139 |
| 064INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 138 |
| 267ENDOVASCULAR CARDIAC VALVE REPLACEMENT AND SUPPLEMENT PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 137 |
CROSS-REFERENCE