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All of our locations offer a wide spectrum of orthopedic treatments and services. As a network of orthopedic clinics in the Kansas City area, you have the freedom to choose a facility that works best for you. This also means that you are welcome to switch your preferred location at any time.

Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute

Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute (KCOI), a physician-owned hospital, is the first and only hospital in the Kansas City area dedicated solely to orthopedics. KCOI was created through a strategic alliance between leading orthopedic surgeons and Saint Luke’s Health System.

KCOI performs more than 700 inpatient surgeries and 3,000 outpatient surgeries every year. The hospital’s team of physicians, nurses, therapists, and technicians are specifically trained and experienced in meeting the unique needs of orthopedic patients.

KCOI’s low patient-to-nurse and patient-to-therapist ratios ensure that patients receive personalized care. KCOI consistently achieves exceptional quality and patient satisfaction scores.

KCOI services include:

• Inpatient and outpatient surgery for all orthopedic sub-specialties in state-of-the-art surgical suites
• Rehabilitation, including physical therapy and occupational therapy
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Interventional pain treatment provided by board-certified physiatrists
• Prosthetics, orthopedic braces, and durable medical goods

Learn more about KCOI services or see a complete list of KCOI physicians.

Financial Assistance

Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute (KCOI) wants to help patients who need assistance paying their medical bills. You may qualify for financial assistance. Please review the information provided and contact us if you want to apply or if you have any questions about the policy or how to apply.

KCOI provides financial assistance for medically indigent patients who meet eligibility criteria. Financial assistance may be provided in full or in part with patient’s being responsible for a reduced amount.  Eligibility is based on patient, guarantor and household income expressed as a percentage of the Federal Poverty Guideline for family size. Other financial resources such as checking accounts, savings accounts, IRA’s, CD’s, retirement savings, and investments are also considered when determining a patient’s eligibility. For hospital accounts, patients qualifying for financial assistance will not be billed for amounts greater than the amounts generally billed to insured patients. 

In the case of a catastrophic medical event, patients who may not ordinarily qualify for financial assistance may be approved for partial assistance. Under these special circumstances the patient responsibility for hospital accounts will be not more than the lesser of 20% of annual family income or the amounts generally billed to insured patients.

Patients may apply for Financial Assistance at any time – before, during or after care. 

Patients apply for financial assistance by completing a Statement of Financial Position form (PDF) and providing supporting documents as requested. The application form is available free to any patient that requests one. Patients may obtain an application form by requesting one in writing or by contacting the business office by phone or email. Patients may pick up a copy of the application form in person from the Admitting office at the hospital. The application form is also available on the KCOI website. The hospital business office staff is available to assist patients in completing the form. You may contact the business office at 913-253-8932.

KCOI Financial Assistance Policy (PDF) only includes patient bills for services provided by the hospital. Your personal physician, surgeon, anesthesiologist, pathologist, emergency physician, radiologist, other physicians or professional providers not employed by KCOI are not covered by this policy. View the KCOI's Amounts Generally Billed Calculation (PDF).

Microsoft has responded to a list of concerns regarding its ongoing $68bn attempt to buy Activision Blizzard, as raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and come up with an interesting statistic.

In response to continued questions over whether Microsoft owning Call of Duty would unfairly hobble PlayStation, Microsoft claimed that every COD player on PlayStation could move over to Xbox, and Sony's playerbase would still remain "significantly larger" than its own.

Microsoft does not go into detail on its mental arithmetic here, but does note elswhere in its comments that PlayStation currently has a console install base of 150 million, compared to Xbox's install base of 63.7 million.

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That claim is part of a range of comments given to Eurogamer sister site GamesIndustry.biz in response to the CMA's latest report, which otherwise mostly repeats many of the same concerns raised by the UK regulator - and others around the world - already.

For those following the case, the CMA's latest intervention will not come as a surprise - it is the next step on the regulator's recent roadmap for how and when it will weigh in with its final ruling. This month, we were due the CMA's October "issues statement" - and it seems that this is the document to which Microsoft has now publicly responded.

The usual topics are covered - surrounding the potential for the deal to harm competitors should Microsoft gain too much of an advantage owning Activision Blizzard franchises (mainly, Call of Duty) and therefore being able to leverage their brand power to become a dominant market leader in the console market and cloud streaming.

Specifically, the CMA sees potential for the deal to harm Sony but also other streaming services such as Google (perhaps a moot point now), Amazon and Nvidia.

"Having full control over this powerful catalogue, especially in light of Microsoft's already strong position in gaming consoles, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure, could result in Microsoft harming consumers by impairing Sony's – Microsoft's closest gaming rival – ability to compete," the CMA wrote, "as well as that of other existing rivals and potential new entrants who could otherwise bring healthy competition through innovative multi-game subscriptions and cloud gaming services."

In response, Microsoft said such "unsupported theories of harm" were not enough to even warrant the CMA's current Phase 2 investigation - which was triggered on 1st September.

"The suggestion that the incumbent market leader, with clear and enduring market power, could be foreclosed by the third largest provider as a result of losing access to one title is not credible," Microsoft told GamesIndustry.biz.

"While Sony may not welcome increased competition, it has the ability to adapt and compete. Gamers will ultimately benefit from this increased competition and choice.

"Should any consumers decide to switch from a gaming platform that does not give them a choice as to how to pay for new games (PlayStation) to one that does (Xbox), then that is the sort of consumer switching behavior that the CMA should consider welfare enhancing and indeed encourage. It is not something that the CMA should be trying to prevent."

The CMA is due to notify Microsoft of its provisional findings in January 2023, at which point it can seek possible remedies to any sticking points raised. The regulator's final report - and overall ruling - will then be published no later than 1st March next year.

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