ICD-10 Online Training for Coders, Billers, Auditors, & All Healthcare Professionals

·         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

THE Consortium September Webinar: Summer Happenings

Please join us for THE Consortium webinar on Thursday, September 20, 2012 from 12:00pm - 1:15pm MDT where we'll discuss Stage 2 Final Rule Summary and updates on other significant changes released this summer!

To register for the webinar, click here.

CORHIO Meaningful Use Boot Camp

CORHIO is sponsoring a half day Meaningful Use Boot Camp on Thursday, September 27th from 1:00 - 4:30 pm at the DoubleTree Hotel in Thornton, CO.

One of the speakers will be CRHC's Senior Advisor to THE Consortium, David Ginsberg.

If you would like more information or would like to register, click here.

Now Available: Stage 2 Overview Tipsheet

On August 23, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule for Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The rule provides new criteria that eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to successfully participate in the EHR Incentive Programs.

CMS developed a Stage 2 Overview Tipsheet, a resource that provides a summary of the Stage 2 final rule and highlights key changes to the EHR Incentive Programs, including:

• Stage 2 Timing – The earliest eligible hospitals and CAHs will demonstrate meaningful use of Stage 2 criteria will be fiscal year 2014, or calendar year 2014 for EPs. Providers who were early demonstrators of meaningful use in 2011 will meet three consecutive years of meaningful use under the Stage 1 criteria before advancing to the Stage 2 criteria in 2014.
• Stage 2 Core and Menu Objectives – Stage 2 retains the Stage 1 core and menu structure for meaningful use objectives. Although some Stage 1 objectives were either combined or eliminated, most of the Stage 1 objectives are now core objectives under the Stage 2 criteria.
  To demonstrate meaningful use under Stage 2 criteria:
• EPs must meet 20 measures (17 core and 3 of 6 menu).
• Eligible hospitals must meet 19 (16 core and 3 of 6 menu).

The end of the tipsheet contains a complete list of the Stage 2 core and menu objectives for both EPs and eligible hospitals and CAHs.

• Reporting Periods in 2014 – All providers, regardless of their stage of meaningful use, are only required to demonstrate meaningful use for a three-month EHR reporting period. CMS is permitting this one-time, three-month reporting period in 2014 only so that all providers who must upgrade to 2014 certified EHR technology will have adequate time to implement their new Certified EHR systems.
• Clinical Quality Measures in 2014 – Beginning in 2014, all providers, regardless of their stage of meaningful use, will report on CQMs in the same way.
• All Medicare EPs and eligible hospitals beyond their first year of demonstrating meaningful use must electronically report their CQM data to CMS.
• All Medicaid providers that are eligible only for the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program will electronically report their CQM data to their state.
• Additionally, all providers will complete this number of CQMs in 2014:
• EPs must report on 9 out of 64 CQMs
• Eligible hospitals and CAHs must report on 16 out of 29 CQMs.

The tipsheet is available on the CMS website and should be reviewed in its entirety to effectively prepare for Stage 2 requirements. 

Register for the September 13 CMS National Provider Call on Stage 2

On August 23, 2012, CMS issued the final rule for Stage 2 of the EHR Incentive Programs, which builds upon the initial progress of the Incentive Programs, while introducing new criteria that are designed to improve patient safety and quality of care.

On Thursday, September 13, 2012, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM MDT, CMS will host a National Provider Call on the final rule of Stage 2 to help providers learn about the new program criteria and successfully receive their incentive payment.

Agenda
The call will cover:

• The extension to Stage 1 of meaningful use
• Changes to Stage 1 criteria for meaningful use
• Proposed Medicaid policies
• Stage 2 meaningful use overview
• Stage 2 clinical quality measures (CQMs)
• Medicare payment adjustments and exceptions
• Questions and answers about the EHR Incentive Programs

Registration:
To register for this call, visit the CMS Upcoming National Provider Calls webpage.

Registration closes at 12:00 p.m. ET on the day of the call, or when available space has been filled.

Presentation:
A link to the slide presentation will be available on the CMS National Provider Calls and Events page.

3 HRSA Webinars: Health Information Technology Week and Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 – 8:00 AM (MDT)

ONC- HRSA Webinar: “Demo of the New ONC Privacy and Security Training Game and Program Update for Safety Net Providers”

This webinar will feature a new training tool from the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Privacy and Security Group.  ONC will demo an interactive training game for providers and staff on the “do’s and don’ts” of privacy and security issues regarding health IT. This training tool can be used to help fulfill a safety net provider’s HIPAA privacy training requirements. In addition, ONC will provide a privacy and security update on recent program changes and how they affect safety net providers.

Presenters include:

·         Laura Rosas, JD, MPH, Policy Analyst, ONC

·         William Phelps Policy Analyst, ONC

Register here: http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=74744813

Friday, September 14, 2012 – 12:00 PM (MDT)

“Leadership Tips During a Health IT Implementation”

This webinar focuses on the importance of leadership in successfully steering an organization through a health IT implementation. It features established leaders who have conducted more than 70 health IT implementations in health centers, rural health clinics, and critical access hospitals. The presenters will also focus on how leadership is important in helping staff, clinicians, patients, a safety net providers’ board, and partners adjust to and overcome the barriers that typically accompany a health IT implementation and impede success. Lastly, the presenters will provide leadership examples of unique health IT implementation situations such as meeting meaningful use objectives, changing vendors, and implementing health IT in multiple provider sites. 

Presenters include:

·         Terry Hill, MPA, Executive Director and Joe Wivoda, Chief Information Officer, National Rural Health Resource Center 

·         Greg Wolverton, Chief Information Officer, White River Rural Health Center, Arkansas

·         Doug Smith, Executive Director, Greene County Healthcare, North Carolina

Register here: http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=98650758

Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 11:00 AM (MDT)

“Overview of Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule for Safety Net Providers”            

With the recent release of the proposed final rule for Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has taken the next step toward supporting more coordinated patient-centered care.

This exclusive webinar will feature lead staff from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, who will provide an overview of the Meaningful Use Stage II Final Rule and how it affects safety net providers like health centers, rural providers, critical access hospitals, and Ryan White clinics.  CMS staff will be available to address specific questions from safety net providers. This webinar will also present staff from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, who will provide a brief overview of the Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule. HRSA encourages all safety net providers to participate in this call to learn more about these proposed final rules. 

Register here:http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=15142458