oatmealhealth.com · public-data estimate, October 2026Hays Medical Center
Lung screening gap across 21 counties in Kansas
About 110 people here are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and 48% are found at a late stage, when it is hardest to treat.
Estimates from public data only; no patient information. Sources and method below.
Where the eligible adults live
The counties where most of Hays Medical Center's Medicare inpatients live. Darker areas hold more adults who likely qualify, which is where outreach would start. Hover or tap any area for its estimate.
Adults likely eligible, per neighborhood
Acute care hospital in this system
Counties in the service area
| County | Adults likely eligible | Lung cancer deaths per 100k | Medicare screens billed locally, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finney County | 1,500 to 3,000 | 28.1 | None billed locally |
| Ford County | 1,300 to 2,700 | 24.9 | None billed locally |
| Barton County | 1,400 to 2,300 | 32.3 | 133 |
| Ellis County | 1,100 to 2,100 | 28.1 | 16 |
| Pawnee County | 360 to 710 | 41.2 | None billed locally |
| Russell County | 430 to 650 | 29.9 | None billed locally |
| Thomas County | 310 to 630 | — | None billed locally |
| Ellsworth County | 340 to 570 | — | None billed locally |
| Phillips County | 300 to 510 | — | None billed locally |
| Rooks County | 270 to 480 | 46.5 | None billed locally |
| Norton County | 300 to 470 | — | None billed locally |
| Scott County | 210 to 400 | — | None billed locally |
| Osborne County | 210 to 330 | — | None billed locally |
| Edwards County | 160 to 320 | — | None billed locally |
| Ness County | 160 to 300 | — | None billed locally |
| Rush County | 190 to 290 | — | None billed locally |
| Trego County | 160 to 280 | — | None billed locally |
| Logan County | 130 to 260 | — | None billed locally |
| Gove County | 140 to 240 | — | None billed locally |
| Graham County | 150 to 240 | — | None billed locally |
| Hodgeman County | 80 to 190 | — | None billed locally |
19 of the 21 counties had no Medicare lung screening reads billed from a local address in 2024. County names link to their Missing Millions page.
What closing the gap would mean
If screening in these counties rose from 21.3% to 26.3%, five points above today, about 460 to 850 more people would be screened each year.
In the National Lung Screening Trial, low-dose CT screening lowered lung cancer deaths by 20% compared with chest X-ray. Today about 48% of lung cancers here are found at a late stage.
Illustrative estimate: eligible adults (range) times the change in screening rate. Not a forecast or a guarantee.
Each year in these counties
NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles, annual averages.
Screening at Hays Medical Center today
Public Medicare claims do not attribute lung screening reads to Hays Medical Center locations. Radiologists who read for a health system often bill through a separate radiology group, so Hays Medical Center's screening volume is best measured from its own records.
Most adults who qualify see a primary care clinician every year. We count 72 primary care clinicians, 0 pulmonologists and 2 thoracic surgeons practicing at Hays Medical Center locations. A 20 pack-year smoking history is often missing from structured EHR fields, so many eligible patients are never flagged.
CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners 2024 (CPT 71271); clinicians matched to Hays Medical Center by practice address using the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems 2023, so reads billed by outside radiology groups are not included. The all-payer estimate scales Medicare fee-for-service by the local Medicare Advantage share (7%, CMS) and, at the high end, by the share of eligible adults under 65 (65%).
2 acute care hospitals
- Hays Medical Center Inc.Hays, KS
- Pawnee Valley Community HospitalLarned, KS
Find them, reach them, give radiologists a second opinion
LungIQ Find
Reads clinical notes, diagnoses and medications in the EHR and returns a ranked list of patients likely eligible, including those whose pack-year history is missing. Start with a CSV export refreshed every 1, 3 or 6 months, or connect through FHIR or HL7.
LungNAV Reach
An AI patient navigator that texts and calls patients in 70+ languages, answers questions about the scan, and hands each patient to your scheduling team or nurse navigators with a call summary.
LungAI Second opinion
Gives radiologists a malignancy risk score for each nodule, factoring in change since the prior scan, inside the PACS and CADe software they already use. The radiologist makes the final call.
LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. It is not commercially available in the United States.How we estimate the gap
Modeled estimates from public data. They are not a count of Hays Medical Center patients and contain no patient information.
- Service area: CMS Hospital Service Area File 2025 (counties within 120 miles of a system hospital holding 80% of its Medicare inpatients, plus any county with at least 1%); hospitals from the AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems, 2023.
- Eligible adults, low estimate: Oatmeal Health Missing Millions (Census 2025 population, CDC PLACES smoking, USPSTF 2021).
- Eligible adults, high estimate: University of Minnesota National Lung Cancer Screening Estimates (Haynes 2026), which also counts former smokers.
- Screening rate: American Lung Association, State of Lung Cancer 2025.
- Lung cancer cases and deaths: NCI and CDC State Cancer Profiles (incidence 2019 to 2023, deaths 2020 to 2024).
- Screening volume: CMS Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners, 2024; CMS Medicare Advantage State/County Penetration, September 2026.
LungAI is an investigational medical device and has not been cleared by FDA. Oatmeal Health is preparing a 510(k) premarket notification. LungAI is not commercially available in the United States.
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