HOSPITAL · CCN 170122
VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA
Physician affiliations & referral network
Affiliated physicians
874
External referring physicians
2,369
Top affiliated specialty
Family Practice
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
245,940
SPECIALTY MIX
Specialties among affiliated physicians
133
115
90
67
59
43
40
40
31
22
19
16
AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS
Physicians affiliated with VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA (874 total)
From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations. Showing the first 50 of 874.
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. | — | 68,852 |
| County Of Sedgwick | Ambulance Service Provider | 27,070 |
| Laboratory Corporation Of America | Clinical Laboratory | 24,197 |
| WESLEY MEDICAL CENTER LLC | — | 23,975 |
| KADISON, HERBERT | — | 14,693 |
| James Degner | Diagnostic Radiology | 12,394 |
| Eddy Lucas | Diagnostic Radiology | 10,016 |
| ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL ST TERESA INC. | — | 6,921 |
| KANSAS HEART HOSPITAL, LLC | — | 6,856 |
| NEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | — | 6,093 |
| KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER LLC | — | 4,349 |
| MELEAN, JAIME | — | 3,766 |
| George Reader | Interventional Cardiology | 3,702 |
| STANGL, ROBERT | — | 3,524 |
| LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS | — | 3,298 |
| Akash Joshi | Diagnostic Radiology | 3,269 |
| Ellen Borst | Family Practice | 2,854 |
| Dennis Ross | Nephrology | 2,834 |
| Kimberly Taylor | Diagnostic Radiology | 2,788 |
| RADIOLOGY SERVICES CORPORATION | — | 2,567 |
| Charles Mcguire | Diagnostic Radiology | 2,441 |
| Hussam Farhoud | Cardiology | 2,440 |
| John Knudtson | Diagnostic Radiology | 2,369 |
| GILE, ROBERT | — | 2,353 |
| Richard Hilgenfeld | Internal Medicine | 2,319 |
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