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  • Novitas Update: Service Impacts Due To System Changes

    By on November 5, 2013

    As a result of recent system changes at Novitas customers may experience the following temporary operational difficulties: Issue Cause/Resolution Status/Date Resolved What Can You Do? Enrollment information not in Enrollment Inquiry Status Tool CMS-855s received after September 23, 2013 may not be entered in the Provider Enrollment Inquiry Status...

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  • Practice Guidelines for Telemedicine; Webinar

    By on November 5, 2013

    The National Telehealth Webinar Series Presented by the National Network of Telehealth Resource Centers PRESENTS: “Practice Guidelines for Telemedicine” Thursday, November 21, 20139:00 AM HST, 10:00 AM AKST, 11:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM MST, 1:00 PM CST, 2:00 PM EST Presented by:Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Ph.D. Telemedicine practice guidelines for...

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  • CMS Special Open Door Forum

    By on November 5, 2013

    Upcoming Special Open Door Forum Scheduled: Conference Call– Streamlined Access to PECOS, EHR, and NPPES, Friday November 15, 2013, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 pm ET. Target Audience: All Medicare Fee-For-Service providers, as well as Professionals and Hospitals eligible for the Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. To register click...

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  • CEO Update: Mapping the Healthcare Landscape

    By on October 15, 2013

    In the midst of the government shut down and the proposed cuts to rural healthcare, now is a critical time to speak the truth about the data.  Everyday new information is being added to the world’s unstructured database at a rate that exceeds our cognitive threshold.  How do we...

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  • As the Colorado HealthStory Project Nears Its End, the Team Releases a Statewide Profile Revealing the Top 10 Themes Heard Around the State

    By on October 15, 2013

    Colorado HealthStory, a project of the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC), the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU) and ClinicNET, is a public will-building project funded by The Colorado Trust and the Colorado Health Foundation. Over the last three years, the team traveled over 3,000 miles to 27...

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  • Radio Disney & Anthem Blue Cross CO get fit challenge

    By on October 14, 2013

    Radio Disney Denver, part of the #1 radio network for kids, tweens and families, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Colorado will team up for the third consecutive year to promote the importance of childhood health and wellness through the Get Active, Get Fit School Challenge, which...

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  • Locals launch campaign to keep medical center in Telluride

    By on October 14, 2013

    Early this month, the Telluride Town Council voted to send a town-drafted measure on the Pearl Property to the November ballot. The measure, Proposition 2D, proposes to divide the property just west of town into two parcels — a large undeveloped open space parcel preserved by a conservation easement,...

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  • If you haven’t already heard….Cavity Free at Three has moved!

    By on October 14, 2013

    The Cavity Free at Three program formerly housed at the University of Colorado has moved to The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Prevention Services Division in the Oral Health Unit. For more information on this program, please contact Anne Gibbs at 303-691-4907 or anne.gibbs@state.co.us.

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  • iCARE Storyboard at IHI’s National Forum

    By on October 14, 2013

    CRHC will be exhibiting a Storyboard about its Improving Communication and Readmission (iCARE) program at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) National Forum in December in Orlando, FL. The storyboard provides an overview of the program since its beginnings in 2010 and highlights the accomplishments of program participants in...

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  • What to watch as health law takes effect

    By on October 14, 2013

    Rural America has a lot at stake with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, say rural health advocates. Here’s what three of them will be watching as “Obama Care” moves forward with major new provisions like insurance marketplaces. Even though the federal government is headed for a shut-down,...

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