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- July 24, 2012
Webinar on EHR Incentive Program Attestation for Eligible Professionals & Eligible Hospitals
Read moreWednesday, August 1, 12:30 CDT/11:30 MDT CMS Regions VI – Dallas, VII – Kansas City and VIII – Denver are pleased to announce a new webinar presenting information on how your practice/facility can successfully attest to meaningful use and qualify for an EHR incentive payment. As of April 30th,...
00 - July 18, 2012
The New “Doughnut Hole” Describes Coverage Gap Created in States Rejecting the Medicaid Expansion
Read moreThe Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act gave governors new flexibility to reject the law’s Medicaid expansion. States that reject the Medicaid expansion may create a coverage gap being called the new “doughnut hole.” Those that fall into the hole will be people who don’t qualify...
- July 18, 2012
Could Value-based Purchasing Program Hurt Safety Net Hospitals? iVantage Report Suggests Rural May Be Different
Read moreA study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests CMS’s Hospital Value-based Purchasing program could mean trouble for safety net hospitals, because safety net hospitals tend to get poorer marks from patients than do other hospitals. These patient satisfaction scores will be used to dole out bonuses and...
- July 18, 2012
HRSA Webinar: Using Data for Evidence-Based Quality Improvement
Read moreFriday, July 27, 2012 — 12:00 pm MDT Electronic Health Records (EHR), data warehouses, and registries are critical components to quality improvement efforts. If used properly to maximize their functionality, it’s possible to generate quality measures that provide timely, understandable, comprehensive, clinically valid, and meaningful feedback to safety net...
- July 18, 2012
IOM Reports Higher Payments Are Not the Cure for Doctor Shortage
Read moreAn Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released Tuesday concluded that while there are wide discrepancies in access to and quality of care across geographic areas, the variations were unlikely to be influenced by changes in Medicare reimbursement rates to providers. In light of this, the IOM committee recommended Medicare...
- July 16, 2012
Update from the Interim CEO: Do You Regularly Promote Your Value?
Read moreIn this day and age of being continually challenged to do more with less and have a lean organization, do you advocate your worth to your partners? Your communities? Yourselves? If not, there is no time like the present. On June 15, 2012, the rural report on serving Medicare...
- July 16, 2012
CHI Presents on the 5 Biggest Questions for Colorado After the Supreme Court’s Ruling on the ACA
Read moreDo you want to know more about the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act? The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) analyzed the five biggest questions looming for Colorado in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision that the health reform law is constitutional. Download...
- July 16, 2012
Rural Locum Tenens and CME Travel Scholarship
Read moreThe Colorado Rural Health Center is offering Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Dentists with an opportunity to get scholarship money for locum tenens pay, and/or travel costs associated with attending local, statewide, or national conferences or additional trainings. Funding cannot be used to pay for the cost of...
- July 16, 2012
Rural Relevance Under Healthcare Reform
Read moreiVantage Health Analytics released a quarterly update to their ongoing tracking study monitoring the rerformance of rural healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Summary findings from research conducted by iVantage shed new, multi-dimensional light on the rural healthcare delivery system using: the latest Medicare Shared Savings data files; the...
- July 16, 2012
Community Transformation Grants – Small Communities Programs
Read moreSponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overarching purpose of this program is to prevent heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other leading chronic disease causes of death or disability through implementation of a variety of evidence based programs, policies, and infrastructure improvements to promote healthy...
