As our state & country move forward on implementing provisions in the federal healthcare reform bill that was passed in March, it should be mentioned that certain provisions were funded while others were merely authorized. Provisions that are authorized will have to wait, beg, and/or plead to be funded...

For the third time this year, physicians face a 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement rates due to inaction by Congress. The House passed an amendment included in the tax extenders bill prior to the Memorial Day recess that would temporarily patch Medicare cuts for 19 months. The SGR amendment...

Physicians, yet again, face a 21% cut to Medicare reimbursement rates unless Congress acts prior to June 1st. Congress is set to begin the Memorial Day recess tomorrow and Democrats are struggling to have enough votes to pass H.R. 4213 (Tax Extender Bill). The bill is being seen as...

SUBMISSIONS SOLICITED FOR 2011 Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (RCAP) MONOGRAPH RCAP will be publishing its eighth monograph on AIDS/STD prevention in rural America in early 2011. To help inform rural HIV/STD prevention specialists about what others are doing, we will devote about one-half of the monograph to brief...

This message is from our national partner orgnanization the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). : The original Senate health reform bill (HR 3590), passed on March 23, included an expansion of 340B availability to critical access hospitals, rural referral centers, sole community hospitals, free-standing cancer hospitals, and children’s hospitals....

Another legislative session has come and gone! During the 2010 Legislative session, there were approximately 119 bills introduced that specifically addressed healthcare, of those, a handful of bills focused on rural healthcare services. The CRHC 2010 Legislative Summary touches on a few of the bills CRHC tracked this session....

In 2009 the Colorado General Assembly passed HB09-1119, which established the Rural Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Program within the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health (DBH). This program is reliant on cash funds collected from DUI and other impaired driving offenses. The DBH hopes to...

CRHC is collaborating with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to collect stories from rural facilities about their HIT experiences. If you’ve adopted technology, we want to know your story…What worked? What didn’t work? What was critical to...

I was delighted to join Colorado Hospital Association CEO, Steven Summer, and other Colorado hospital leaders at the American Hospital Association Membership meeting in Washington D.C. in April. The trip gave me the chance to continue our discussion with Colorado’s Congressional Delegation about the need to support Colorado’s Rural...