Online ICD 10 Training is Available to You!

 

 Do any of these apply to you??

• Too busy to go to ICD-10 training?
• Perhaps, you’ve attended ICD-10 Workshops, but would love additional training?
• Is your budget stretched thin already -- and you wish you could find an unbelievable bargain for your staff to learn ICD-10 and how to become proficient with the rules and regulations of the future?
• If you answered yes to any of the above questions, CRHC can help now!!

 

Take advantage of this opportunity to enroll in the following online courses that will prepare you and your organization for the successful transition to ICD 10. These courses will provide you with history, structure, functions, guidelines and the terminology needed to ensure accurate and efficient billing processes. Whether you are a new coder, an advanced coder with years of experience, or a health care provider -- you will find value in this timely information. For more information on a specific course, please click on the links below. If you are employed by a Colorado Critical Access Hospital (CAH) or a rural PPS hospital with less than 49 beds, you are currently participating in the FY2011 SHIP Grant Program – and -- your online classes are FREE to all hospital staff!!! click here to get started now! If you are a Rural Health Center (RHC) or other rural health care facility in Colorado, please click here for a class listing and the opportunities available to you! CEU’s are available for all classes. Don’t wait…get started today!

 

 

 

 

For more information or questions, please contact Danette Swanson, HIT Program Coordinator, at ds@coruralhealth.org

CMS issues preliminary decisions on recommendations of outpatient payment panel on supervision levels for select services

On September 24, CMS posted information on the hospital outpatient payment panel regarding the appropriate supervision levels for individual hospital outpatient therapeutic services. To view the panel’s decisions and recommendation, please click here

Hospital Intranet Case Study: Register for this FREE webinar

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 , 9:30am Mountain

In the 21st century, the internet has become a vital resource for everyday life. Many innovative healthcare organizations have made a web-based employee intranet portal an equally critical component in their operation.

Well-designed intranet portals allow an organization's employees to easily access and publish key departmental and organizational wide information from the cafeteria menu for the day to on-call schedules, clinical protocols, and e-learning. The hallmarks of a robust intranet include increased productivity, the ability to truly go paperless, workflow automation, and seamless integration with other web-based applications.

In this webinar you will learn firsthand how and why Kathryn McKinney, Director of Public Relations and Marketing and Randy Kelly, Webmaster, at mid-sized Union Hospital in Elkton, MD, and their colleagues replaced their previous intranet with HospitalPortal.net at their facility. Additionally the Union Hospital team will demonstrate this on their intranet portal to show how their hospital uses it daily to manage communications, broadcast information, and manage policies and procedures. The demonstration will highlight Union Hospital's most compelling uses of the portal.

View this webinar to see how a hospital intranet can help your organization manage communications internally as well manage your organizational and departmental policies and procedures.

Register at our website now! Limited space available.

ICD 10 is Closer Than it Seems!!

Meeting with Your ICD-10 Project Team

To make sure your organization successfully makes the switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by the October 1, 2014, compliance deadline, it will be important to meet with your ICD-10 Project Team regularly to discuss transition activities, challenges, and needs.

Preparing for Your ICD-10 Check-in Meeting
As you hold in-person check-in meetings or conference calls, it is helpful to establish a day and time when the meeting will occur each month (e.g., 1 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month), so that all team members know that ICD-10 is a priority for your practice. As the transition date approaches, you should switch to more frequent meetings, weekly or bi-weekly.

To make sure the check-in meetings are productive, consider the following tips for holding an effective meeting:
Create an agenda. Developing and disseminating a brief agenda prior to the meeting will help keep the conversation on track and will allow team members to prepare their updates.
Reserve time for questions. Remember to set aside time at the end of the meeting for questions from project team members.
Take notes and draft action items. Following each meeting, distribute key takeaways and action items to the team to keep everyone informed about any important decisions made and individual responsibilities.

During meetings, team members should plan to discuss:
Progress on ICD-10 transition activities. This will help to keep the team up to date on each individual's assigned tasks. It may also be helpful to use this time to set deadlines and goals for completing task activities.
Upcoming education opportunities. Share information about local events or online trainings on ICD-10 that may benefit the team. Also, feel free to distribute ICD-10-related articles to keep the team informed about the latest ICD-10 news.
Best practices. Have you done or did you hear about a novel way to address part of your transition to ICD-10? Take this time to share that information, and discuss how it can be applied in your group's implementation plan.
Challenges encountered. Use this time to discuss any challenges the team has encountered, and brainstorm ways to successfully overcome these obstacles.

Keep Up to Date on ICD-10.
Please visit the ICD-10 website for the latest news and resources to help you prepare.

Colorado Rural Credentialing Network

Provides rural facilities with information, education, and resources pertaining to medical staff credentialing. Members receive: access to quarterly webinars; up-to-date tools and resources; peer networking; and access to a credentialing specialist. 

If you are interested and would like to learn more about this service through CRHC, please contact Courtnay Ryan at cr@coruralhealth.org

Acute and Chronic Pain Management Seminar

 

 Thursday, November 15, 2012   5:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. 

 

University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora CO Education 2 North Building; Room 2104

• Colorado Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force Present
• Acute and Chronic Pain Management:
• Responsible Opioid Prescribing
• For physicians, dentists, nurses with prescriptive authority

 

  Buffet Dinner at 5:00 p.m., Seminar from 6:00–9:30 p.m.

 Topics include: Acute pain management, chronic pain management, Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, prescribing liability

 

FREE   Limited seating, pre-registration required   Live streaming webinar available, pre-registration required

 

How to do the Managed Care Dance – What You Need to Know to Participate in Networks

 

Date: October 16, 2012, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT

Don’t miss an important webinar led by speakers with extensive experience in the managed care industry.  Managed care and managed behavioral healthcare play a critical role in the delivery of behavioral healthcare services. Whether Medicaid, Medicare, or commercial insurance, providers need to know how to effectively participate in managed care networks.   CIHS will host a webinar for community-based providers — whether they are community health centers, mental health centers, substance abuse treatment organizations, HIV/AIDS clinics, maternal and child health organizations, or others — to learn how to effectively apply and gain acceptance on managed care provider panels. For integrated care to succeed, providers and managed care and managed behavioral healthcare organizations need to work together effectively on behalf of enrollees. 

 

Webinar presenters will provide details on:

• The goals, structure, and components of managed behavioral health care organizations;
• The managed behavioral healthcare organization credentialing process, including the criteria and standards many behavioral health organizations use to select quality network provider partners;
• A range of reimbursement models used by managed care entities;
• Specific strategies and key “relationship points” for partnering with BHOs, particularly as related to primary and behavioral healthcare integration.

 

  Participants will hear examples of successful integration-focused provider partnerships that move towards meeting the triple aim of better healthcare, better health, and lower cost through improvement.

Audience: Personnel from community-based provider organizations, both behavioral health and primary care

 

Presenters:

Pamela Greenberg, President and CEO, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness

Jim Clarkson, Vice President, ValueOptions Grants Management Practice, Emerging Markets Group

ValueOptions

Deb Adler, Senior Vice President, Behavioral Network Services, OptumHealth

 

Register today: http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/about-us/webinars

 

 

Online ICD 10 Training is available to you!!!

Too busy to go to ICD-10 training?

Perhaps, you’ve attended ICD-10 Workshops, but would love additional training?

Is your budget stretched thin already -- and you wish you could find an unbelievable bargain for your staff to learn ICD-10 and how to become proficient with the rules and regulations of the future?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, CRHC can help now!!

Take advantage of this opportunity to enroll in the following online courses that will prepare you and your organization for the successful transition to ICD 10. These courses will provide you with history, structure, functions, guidelines and the terminology needed to ensure accurate and efficient billing processes. Whether you are a new coder, an advanced coder with years of experience, or a health care provider -- you will find value in this timely information. For more information on a specific course, please click on the links below. If you are employed by a Colorado Critical Access Hospital (CAH) or a rural PPS hospital with less than 49 beds, you are currently participating in the FY2011 SHIP Grant Program – and -- your online classes are FREE to all hospital staff!!! click here to get started now! If you are a Rural Health Center (RHC) or other rural health care facility in Colorado, please click here for a class listing and the opportunities available to you! CEU’s are available for all classes. Don’t wait…get started today!

For more information or questions, please contact Danette Swanson, HIT Program Coordinator, at ds@coruralhealth.org

Is your CAH signed up for iCARE?

Hospitals’ avoidable readmission rates have come under close scrutiny by payers and policymakers because of the potential of high savings associated with them. Tackling this issue is an opportunity to improve quality and reduce costs in the health care system. Although readmission rates among Colorado CAHs, by virtue of their volume, may be small, there is opportunity for our state to stay ahead of national trends, spotlight the great services Colorado CAHs are providing, make improvements in processes that will help maintain low readmission rates and continue to showcase the hospital’s status as a leader in their community.  The basic goals of this project, funded by Colorado’s Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant (Flex) (CFDA: 93.241; Grant Award: 2 H54RH00056-09-00) are to:

• Improve communications in transitions of care
• Improve the clinical process and systems to reduce readmissions, particularly for heart failure and pneumonia patients
• Maintain low readmission rates

When you join this project, along with a myriad of other resources that will become available to you, you will also have access to our password protected websitedesigned to provide you and your staff with tools and templates to assist you in implementing the changes you would like to see at your facility and in your community to help you reach these goals while at the same time improving quality, reducing costs and improving patient satisfaction.

 

For more information on iCARE or how you and your provider based clinics can join please contact Courtnay Ryan at cr@coruralhealth.org or 303.309.6807