200+ Healthcare Support Jobs in Kansas City, MO

Observed government data shows Kansas City healthcare support occupations averaging $19.21 per hour in May 2025, with the broader local occupation family at a $38,270 annual median, $32,780 at the 25th percentile, and $45,420 at the 75th percentile in 2025. Directional posting data from the local sample centers hourly roles on about $17 to $23 / hour, with a broader about $15 to $26 / hour band.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 73 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $34,320 at the 25th percentile, $42,500 at the median and $49,566 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration in Kansas City looks workable, but not easy, over the next 3-6 months. Kansas City's education and health services employment reached 185.4 thousand in August 2026, up 2.6010% year-over-year, and the metro unemployment rate was 3.6% in August 2026. The Callings.ai job database also recorded more than 400 postings across more than 125 companies over the last 90 days, which shows real local opportunity. But Missouri occupation-level employment for this category was up 0.6% year-over-year in September 2026 while active postings were down 3.7% year-over-year, so openings appear a bit tighter than a year ago even though underlying demand is still there.

Best positioned: The strongest profile right now is someone who can start on-site quickly and brings a CNA or medical assistant credential plus patient care, vital signs, EHR, and documentation skills.

Main caution: The biggest risk is assuming healthcare growth makes this an easy market; remote work is less than 5% of postings, most roles are entry-level, and pay still clusters around frontline wage bands unless you move into more specialized or mixed admin roles.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 206 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. HCA Healthcare: 27 open roles
2. Saint Luke's Limited: 27 open roles
3. Kansas Health System: 24 open roles
4. AdventHealth: 16 open roles
5. University Health: 11 open roles
6. Children's Mercy: 5 open roles
7. College Park Family Care Center: 5 open roles
8. Walmart Inc.: 5 open roles
9. DaVita Inc.: 4 open roles
10. EyeCare Partners LLC: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Kansas City: 63
• Overland Park: 52
• Olathe: 20
• Lee's Summit: 15
• Independence: 11
• Lenexa: 10
• Liberty: 5
• Shawnee: 3

Work arrangement

on-site 195 (98%), hybrid 3 (2%)

Where the demand is

Most real opportunity is clustered in hospital-centered employers. In the local posting sample, hospitals and health care account for about 55% of openings and another about 30% sit in broader healthcare employers, while the named leaders were Kansas Health System, Saint Luke's Limited, and HCA Healthcare. Because the market is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer, you improve your odds by applying across systems and across both bedside-support and patient-access workflows. The second pocket is roles that mix care support with admin reliability: medical assistants, patient access, scheduling, documentation, and records-adjacent work. Local skill demand emphasizes patient care, vital signs, phlebotomy, infection control, medical terminology, and documentation, while almost all openings are on-site and most are entry-level. New federal price-transparency rules should also make patient-facing administrative accuracy more valuable in access and billing-adjacent work. Longer-term, large-system capacity projects reinforce the same concentration pattern. Children's Mercy announced a $1 billion downtown tower expansion with a projected 25-30% capacity increase, a $152 million Kansas expansion was also announced, and AdventHealth South Overland Park expanded ICU and PCU capacity while opening a new medical group site. Those are expansion signals rather than guaranteed short-term hiring counts, but they do point to where future openings are likely to cluster.

• Hospital and inpatient support (high): This is the strongest local pocket because hospitals and health care make up about 55% of the posting mix and the biggest named employers are large hospital systems.
• Clinic, patient access, and front-end administration (high): This is attractive for candidates with EHR, scheduling, terminology, documentation, and cost-explanation strength, especially as price-transparency requirements tighten patient-facing admin workflows.
• Home health and community-based support (moderate): Nationally, home health and personal care aides are still projected for 17% growth from 2024 through 2034, but the local Kansas City evidence in this bundle is thinner than for hospital-based roles.

Where to focus: Prioritize hospital-system and clinic-network openings where frontline support and admin tasks overlap, because that is where local demand, required skills, and medium-term expansion signals line up best.

Roles worth searching next

• Administrative assistant or office coordinator: It uses scheduling, documentation, phones, records discipline, and cross-team coordination that map well from patient access and clinic support.
• Insurance claims or prior-authorization specialist: It rewards medical terminology, documentation accuracy, payer navigation, and patient-financial communication.
• Health insurance member services representative: It reuses empathy, call handling, issue resolution, and benefits explanation skills from patient-facing admin work.
• Community health worker or social service assistant: It fits candidates strongest in patient interaction, follow-up, coordination, and documentation.

What postings ask for

• CNA certification (table_stakes | immediate): CNA appears among the most commonly requested local credentials, and national employer survey data says certified candidates are preferred when other factors are equal. Who: Entry-level bedside candidates, nursing assistant applicants, and patient care tech candidates.
• Medical assistant certification (differentiator | immediate): Medical assistant certification shows up in local postings, and 48% of surveyed employers reported expanded duties for medical assistants, which rewards candidates who can handle both clinical and administrative work. Who: Medical assistant applicants and career switchers aiming for mixed clinic roles.
• BLS/BCLS or CPR (table_stakes | immediate): Basic life support and CPR appear repeatedly in local credential requirements and national skill demand for healthcare support and administration roles. Who: Anyone applying to patient-facing support roles.
• Vital signs monitoring and patient care (table_stakes | immediate): Patient care is the top local hard skill and vital signs monitoring is also heavily requested, making this the clearest baseline proof of readiness for bedside and clinic support work. Who: Entry-level and returning-to-work candidates targeting direct patient support.
• Phlebotomy (differentiator | near-term): Phlebotomy shows up in about 25% of local skill mentions, which can separate you from more general support applicants. Who: Medical assistant, clinic support, and patient care tech candidates.
• EHR, medical terminology, documentation, and patient scheduling (differentiator | immediate): Documentation and medical terminology are requested locally, and national skill signals point to EHR software and patient scheduling as core admin-support tools. Who: Patient access, scheduler, records, referral, and mixed clinical-admin candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles pay in Kansas City, MO-KS?

Observed government data shows Kansas City healthcare support occupations averaging $19.21 per hour in May 2025, with the broader local occupation family at a $38,270 annual median, $32,780 at the 25th percentile, and $45,420 at the 75th percentile in 2025. Directional posting data from the local sample centers hourly roles on about $17 to $23 / hour, with a broader about $15 to $26 / hour band. For most frontline support work, this is moderate pay rather than high pay. It can be a stable path into healthcare, but many offers will still land in the high teens to low twenties unless the role adds specialty tasks, lead duties, or a stronger admin component.

Where is demand for Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles in Kansas City, MO-KS concentrated?

Most real opportunity is clustered in hospital-centered employers. In the local posting sample, hospitals and health care account for about 55% of openings and another about 30% sit in broader healthcare employers, while the named leaders were Kansas Health System, Saint Luke's Limited, and HCA Healthcare. Because the market is fragmented rather than dominated by one employer, you improve your odds by applying across systems and across both bedside-support and patient-access workflows. The second pocket is roles that mix care support with admin reliability: medical assistants, patient access, scheduling, documentation, and records-adjacent work. Local skill demand emphasizes patient care, vital signs, phlebotomy, infection control, medical terminology, and documentation, while almost all openings are on-site and most are entry-level. New federal price-transparency rules should also make patient-facing administrative accuracy more valuable in access and billing-adjacent work. Longer-term, large-system capacity projects reinforce the same concentration pattern. Children's Mercy announced a $1 billion downtown tower expansion with a projected 25-30% capacity increase, a $152 million Kansas expansion was also announced, and AdventHealth South Overland Park expanded ICU and PCU capacity while opening a new medical group site. Those are expansion signals rather than guaranteed short-term hiring counts, but they do point to where future openings are likely to cluster.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration talent in Kansas City, MO-KS?

Recent postings show the most activity from Kansas Health System (None postings), Saint Luke's Limited (None postings), HCA Healthcare (None postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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