Colette Lasack, who oversees billing for the $5.4 billion University of Kansas Health System, worries about every patient who walks through the door without insurance.
Recently, those worries have been multiplying.
As federal policy changes begin to put health insurance out of reach for more people, a growing number of patients are returning to the ranks of the uninsured. That makes it harder — if not impossible — for them to afford routine healthcare and increases the likelihood that they will need free care, a troubling prospect for hospitals like KU…