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- September 1, 2011
New Website Available to Answer Questions, Provide Information on Health Insurance
Read moreThe Colorado Division of Insurance has created a new website for consumers and business owners to answer questions and provide information about health insurance, including what drives the cost of insurance premiums, how to select a plan, and how to get help when an insurance claim is denied. Click...
00 - September 1, 2011
New Critical Access Hospital Data Initiative
Read moreRural healthcare providers and advocates know that rural health is not ‘a smaller version’ of urban healthcare systems and that current national measurement and benchmarking systems may not accurately capture and reflect the quality work of rural health providers. The Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) is a three-year,...
- August 31, 2011
Register Now for the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs National Provider Call: Registration and Attestation for Eligible Professionals
Read moreHear the Experts Discuss the EHR Incentive Programs Date: Friday, September 9 Time: 11:30-1:00 p.m. MDT Agenda: During the call, CMS experts will discuss the following topics: • Path to Payment • Highlights of Registration and Attestation Processes • Third Party Proxy • Troubleshooting • Helpful Resources There will...
- August 31, 2011
Denver Post Coverage on Scaling Back Medicaid Expansion
Read moreToday’s Denver Post covers the recent announcement by the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing that it will be limiting Medicaid coverage for adults without dependent children. Click here for the article.
- August 31, 2011
Helpful Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Tips for Eligible Professionals
Read moreThe Medicaid EHR Incentive Program was designed to be administered through each individual state and Colorado will be participating with payments expected in the late Spring / early Summer 2012 for Eligible Providers (EP). In the meantime, here are a few tips for preparing to participate: Eligibility: An EP...
- August 24, 2011
Update on State Medicaid Expansion
Read moreThe Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has made decisions regarding expanding Medicaid coverage to adults without dependent children, including when and how the expansion will begin and who will be eligible in the first phase. Please click here to read the update provided by The Colorado...
- August 23, 2011
CMS Creates Medicare Bundled Payment Initiative for Interested Providers
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has invited interested providers to “help test and develop” four different models of bundling payments. Under this initiative, CMS would link payments for multiple services patients receive during an episode of care. Three models involve a retrospective bundled payment arrangement and...
- August 22, 2011
Standards Panel Reaches EHR Milestone
Read moreThe Health IT Standards Committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards for each area of quality reporting measures, an accomplishment that has been 10 years in the making. The domains include medications, labs and allergies. The committee will recommend to the Office of the National Coordinator for...
- August 19, 2011
Policy Brief: U.S. Rural Hospital Charges Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
Read moreA new policy brief by the RUPRI Rural Health Center for Policy Analysis examines the trends and regional variations of rural hospital charges due to ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs), by insurance type, from 2000 to 2004. While ACSC-related charges as a percentage of all charges in rural hospitals...
- August 17, 2011
The Geography of Need: Identifying Human Service Needs in Rural America
Read moreA recent study by the Rural Policy Research Institute, The Geography of Need: Identifying Human Service Needs in Rural America, proposes a new methodology for creating a human service profile based on characteristics of a population and also documents how human service needs differ significantly, in both the degree...
