Consumers now have access to prices for nearly 40 common health care services Denver, CO – February 13, 2019 – Patients searching for health care prices now have access to more procedures than ever before through an online shopping tool based on information in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database Read more…
When it came time to make the decision to start a family, I was fortunate to be insured and able to set aside dollars in a Flex Savings Account (FSA) to plan for the costs associated with having a baby. I anticipated costs based on information pieced together from our Read more…
New scorecards find that 21% of commercial payments and 40% of Medicaid payments place providers at financial risk for meeting quality targets DENVER – November 13, 2018 – Over half of the health care payments (57%) paid to doctors and hospitals in Colorado by the commercial sector in 2016 contain Read more…
$54-141 Million in Annual Savings Possible According to New Analysis November 8, 2018 — DENVER, CO — Colorado’s total health care costs for commercially insured individuals in 2016 increased two percentage points from 2015, according to a new multi-state benchmark analysis released today by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement Read more…
CIVHC is excited to announce that, via partnership with the Colorado Advance Directive Consortium (CADC), we are the new home for the Medical Order Scope of Treatment (MOST) form. A resource for the seriously ill, the MOST form summarizes and consolidates important information about a patient’s preferences for life-sustaining treatments 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. CADC, an informal organization of professionals in healthcare, senior services, 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 goal of the State Innovation Model(SIM) is to improve care and 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 Health comprises 12 nationally renowned research centers and institutes, which focus 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 Economist at the Center for Improving Value in Health Care 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 create a community of health care innovation professionals and businesses Read more…