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- October 14, 2013
Centura Health announces plan to improve healthcare in rural areas
Read moreCentura Health announced a new affiliation with Colorado Choice Health Plans as part of a plan to improve health care for Coloradans living in rural areas. Englewood-based Centura Health said it will work with the HMO “to develop new initiatives aimed at providing high-value programs and care for rural...
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March 2013: Medicare Advantage Update
Read moreKey Data Findings: From March 2012 to March 2013, rural enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) and other prepaid plans increased by over 200,000 enrollees, to more than 1.9 million. Preferred provider organization (PPO) plan enrollment increased to nearly one million enrollees, accounting for more than 51% of the rural...
- October 14, 2013
CMS Proposes a Medicare Prospective Payment System for Federally Qualified Health Centers
Read moreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule to establish a Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), as outlined in the Affordable Care Act. The proposed, updated payment system, which is scheduled to begin October 1, 2014, would increase...
- October 14, 2013
Families Plus in Delta receives grant for EHR
Read moreFamilies Plus staff has been working to setup and organize cloud based electronic health records since the summer of 2012. At that time the Colorado Rural Health Center, extended a grant to Families Plus to purchase needed equipment and to buy into an electronic health system. After much research,...
- October 14, 2013
Wow! Over 1000 critical access and small, rural hospitals meet the Meaningful Use challenge!
Read moreLast year, we issued a nationwide challenge to see 1000 critical access hospitals (CAHs) and small, rural hospitals get to Meaningful Use by 2014. The call to action was met with support; we could feel everyone roll up their sleeves in unison. As of July 31, 2013, we passed...
- October 14, 2013
ONC blazes past meaningful use goal for rural providers
Read moreIs the EHR digital divide between robust tech-savvy large health networks and the smaller rural and critical access hospitals as deep and craggy as we keep hearing it is? Perhaps, but there has been substantive progress to date. ONC, in fact, has already surpassed its stated aim of enlisting...
- October 14, 2013
- October 14, 2013
National Council Legislators of the Year
Read moreTo recognize his exemplary leadership on behalf of people with mental health and substance use disorders, the National Council for Behavioral Health honors Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) as its Behavioral Health Champion. The National Council also recognizes six other members of Congress as Legislators of the Year: Sen. Kelly...
- October 14, 2013
60 Minutes Highlights Need for Excellence in Mental Health Act
Read moreFirst, let’s be clear — there is no “mental health system” serving people with serious mental illnesses in this country just as there is no single “healthcare system.” Mental health services are available in every community just like general medical services. For people with serious mental illnesses, these services...
- October 14, 2013
Health perspectives: Hispanics and Latinos
Read moreClick here to view an infograph produced by the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved.
