The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the Primary Care Incentive Payment Program. For the years 2011 through 2015, if certain evaluation and management services represent 60% or more of Medicare allowable charges, then the provider qualifies for a 10% bonus calculated on the primary care...

Almost half a million Coloradans are expected to gain dental benefits under Medicaid by 2016. That doesn’t mean they’ll be able to see a dentist. Two state policy changes rolling out next year are intended to improve access to oral health care for low-income Coloradans. The Legislature earlier this...

If you’re an employer there are also numerous positive outcomes from the ACA roll-out. Really. We will have more paperwork, some of us will have more costs, and more meetings with our insurance brokers. However, some business owners will benefit from tax credits and other incentives to offer employee’s...

New cuts to Medicare, enacted as a result of the new federal budget compromise approved earlier this month, could mean the loss of an additional $90 million in payments to Colorado hospitals. Click here to read the full article published by the Northern Colorado Business Report. 

Click here for recently released information on Indian Health Professions Preparatory, Indian Health Professions Pre-graduate and Indian Health Professions Scholarship Programs that you may be eligible for.

The rollout of the Affordable Care Act has already set off significant change and uproar around individual insurance plans. As the ACA settles into place in 2014, more change and concerns are coming to small rural hospitals. Under the ACA, small rural hospitals will see significant reductions in traditional...

This is an opportunity for communities (from very rural to highly urban) to receive a grant to be involved in identifying current community behavioral health practices and to assist in developing new and improved methods. We are working with the “Community Assessment and Education to Promote Behavioral Health Planning...

Tuesday, February 4, 2013 1:00-2:00pm MT Click here to register We are in the open enrollment period for health insurance in the Health Insurance Marketplace. We will explain the health care law, show you how to shop for plans using our new window shopping tool, explain how to enroll,...

Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:00-2:00pm MT Click here to register Join HRSA for an interactive webinar on the health care law, the Affordable Care Act. 

January 24, 2014 11:00-12:00pm MST Click hereto register (free) Are you maximizing the return on your clinical data? Can key stakeholders extract critical insights for planning and delivering patient care?  In the face of explosive data growth and increasingly complex data formats, clinicians often hit the limits of the...