If you have been to a doctor’s office in the last several years, you’ve likely signed a form detailing the provider’s privacy practices, how they protect your information, and how they comply with something called HIPAA. The Healthcare Information Portability Read more
Colorado Advance Directives Consortium is delighted to announce the Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment program has found an administrative home with Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), securing a stable future for the honoring of patient wishes. Read more
On a monthly and quarterly basis, health insurance payers including Medicaid, over 33 commercial payers, and Medicare submit claims to the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). Payers submit claims for everyone they provide coverage to, regardless of whether Read more
Five years ago, my father had a massive heart attack. Thankfully, he was rushed to the emergency room and straight into the intensive care unit (ICU). His condition was so bad that he was on more nitroglycerin than his nurse Read more
PROFILE & USE CASE: Transforming the Health Care System In 2012, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) launched an ambitious demonstration initiative designed to transform the health care system at the state level by building new, scalable models. The federal Read more
USE CASE: Investigating Changes in Medicaid Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act Click here to watch to the Change Agent Chat featuring Sarah Gordon, doctoral student at Brown and Pete Sheehan, CIVHC’s VP of Business Development. Brown University’s School of Public Read more
PROFILE: Scorecard on Payment Reform Click here to listen to CPR’s Andrea Caballero chat with CIVHC’s CMO, Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts, about Scorecard 2.0. Click here to listen to CPR’s Listening In podcast where Andréa Caballero dials up Jonathan Mathieu, VP of Research and Compliance & Chief Read more
Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is excited to announce the establishment of an extension office at the new Catalyst HTI health care complex in the River North neighborhood of Denver. The mission of Catalyst HTI is to Read more
by Cari Frank, CIVHC’s VP of Communication and Marketing My friend’s father just had surgery to release pressure from an accident that caused swelling in his brain. After the bill arrived, he was shocked that the surgeon billed $10,000 for Read more
Any car owner can tell you that many, many components make up the vehicles we rely on every day to ferry us between work and home or between errands. And accordingly, mechanics have become increasingly specialized – especially now that Read more
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