News and updates from CRHC's 2013 Classic Sponsors. We would like to thank our sponsors who support CRHC in a variety of ways. We encourage you to
learn more about these businesses who share our commitment to strengthening rural healthcare across Colorado, as well as provide resources to our members. If you would like to learn more about our Classic Sponsorship Program, please visit our
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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name of Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc., an independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association. ®ANTHEM is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc.
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At Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield we understand our health connects us to each other. What we all do impacts those around us. So Anthem is dedicated to delivering better care to our members, providing greater value to our customers and helping improve the health of our communities.
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“Anthem Urges Seniors to Get Flu, Pneumonia Vaccines”
The seasonal flu can be serious for everybody. So serious, in fact, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that nearly everyone get a flu vaccine. This is particularly true for seniors (adults 65 and older).
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CoBiz Financial is a multi-billion-dollar financial services company serving the complete financial needs of businesses and business owners in Colorado and Arizona, with experts who specialize in the unique needs of our medical community. We serve the leading health care entities including hospitals, clinics, physician groups and managed care organizations. Our knowledge of the medical field enables us to better assess your needs and to find solutions that free you to succeed.
Our products and services are customized to our clients at all stages of their business lifecycle. At Colorado Business Bank, we combine the personal service of a community bank with the sophisticated products expected from a large national bank. We offer a complete suite of products tailored to you including commercial, real estate and private banking, and sophisticated treasury management and deposit services. With our local decision making, we provide quick responses and customized solutions from a banker who knows you and your business. CoBiz Insurance helps our medical industry clients deal with complex policies, fluctuating costs and an ever-changing legal environment with its property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits offerings. Through CoBiz Wealth, we offer investment management and trust advisory services and through Green Manning & Bunch, we offer investment banking services.
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Colorado Access is a nonprofit health plan that provides access to behavioral and physical health services for Coloradans. Established in late 1994, the company is sponsored by Children's Hospital Colorado, Colorado Community Managed Care Network and University of Colorado Hospital/University Physicians, Inc. We currently have four (4) active lines of business:
■Access Behavioral Care
■Child Health Plan Plus offered by Colorado Access
■Colorado Access Advantage (Medicare)
■Regional Care Collaborative Organization (RCCO)
Colorado Access also provides administrative services for the CHP+ State Managed Care Network and CHP+ Prenatal Care Program. To learn more about the CHP+ State Managed Care Network, visit
www.chpplusproviders.com.
Colorado Access is unique because of what we do and how we do it. What we do is take care of Colorado's "medically underserved populations." We offer access to physical and behavioral health services for people who receive Child Health Plan Plus, Medicaid or have Medicare Parts A & B. We go beyond that. Every day, we work to improve the quality of each and every life we have the honor of serving.
Click here to learn more about Colorado Access.
The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) is the leading voice of the state’s hospital community. Representing 95 hospitals and health systems throughout Colorado, CHA serves as a trusted, credible resource on health issues, hospital data and trends for the media, policymakers and the general public. Through CHA, Colorado’s hospitals work together in their shared commitment to improving health care in Colorado.
Member hospitals include private and government-operated, metropolitan and rural, investor-owned and not-for-profit facilities. Beyond providing their patients with the best health care services available, Colorado hospitals work every day to enrich and strengthen their communities. Colorado hospitals offer a range of general and specialty services at locations throughout the state. To locate a hospital, visit the
Find a Hospital section.
Click here for a map of CHA member hospitals. Or
click here to learn more about CHA by visiting their website.
COPIC is a leading provider of medical professional liability insurance to physicians, group practices, hospitals and other medical facilities. Our nationally-recognized patient safety and risk management programs deliver tools and guidance designed for practical implementation to improve health care outcomes. And COPIC’s advocacy efforts help maintain a stable medical liability environment so health care professionals can focus on what matters most—better medicine and better lives.
COPIC’s mission is to improve medicine in the communities we serve. One of the ways we do this is by supporting organizations like the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) so it can carry out its mission to enhance healthcare services in the state and address rural health issues. It’s a partnership COPIC is proud to be a part of, as we work with CRHC and its members “to ensure that all rural Coloradans have access to comprehensive, affordable, high quality healthcare.”
COPIC’s philosophy is based on offering valuable educational resources, trusted advice, solid defense and unparalleled customer service:
- COPIC annually offers more than 400 educational programs that reach more than 10,000 health care professionals.
- When patients are injured due to a failure to meet the standard of care, COPIC supports fair and expeditious compensation. When medicine meets the standard of care, we rigorously defend policyholders, drawing upon extensive experience in medical liability claims and expert legal counsel.
- COPIC’s intensive legislative advocacy program focuses on tort reform and patient safety as essential to accessible, affordable quality health care and a stable medical liability environment.
- COPIC’s 3Rs (Recognize, Respond and Resolve) Program addresses unexpected medical outcomes in a way that attempts to preserve the physician-patient relationship and reimburse the patient for related eligible expenses. It was recognized by The New England Journal of Medicine as part of the national transformation in how health care providers communicate with patients about unexpected outcomes.
- COPIC conducts more than 2,200 practice quality reviews annually to provide guidance on ways to improve internal systems and mitigate risk.
COPIC was founded by Colorado physicians in 1981. Today, our CEO and the majority of our board members are physicians, representing diverse medical specialties, practice sizes/settings, and geographical areas. The remaining board members are respected business leaders. COPIC consists of COPIC Insurance Company, COPIC Financial Service Group, Ltd., and COPIC Medical Foundation—all of which work together to collaborate with key stakeholders and the broader health care community.
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Founded in 1997, Executive Health Resources (EHR), is the leading provider of medical necessity compliance solutions to more than 2,300 hospitals and health systems across the country. Endorsed by the American Hospital Association and Peer Reviewed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, EHR delivers its medical necessity compliance solutions through expert Physician Advisors who are specially-trained in Medicare/Medicaid rules and regulations pertaining to observation and inpatient status.
Through its expert Physician Advisor approach, EHR delivers an outsourced operational, technological, and clinical resource that helps hospitals achieve the critical goal of effectively managing clinical care while maintaining regulatory compliance and sound financial performance. To date, EHR's Physician Advisors have successfully performed more than 5 million medical necessity reviews, conducted hundreds of audits at hospital facilities, and successfully identified and reversed thousands of inappropriate medical necessity denials, concurrently and retrospectively, at all levels of appeal.
Today, EHR employs hundreds of Physician Advisors who possess a wide array of medical specialties and board certifications and work in EHR's headquarter and regional offices. Available seven days a week, 365 days a year, EHR's Physician Advisors are The Medical Necessity Authority™ in the healthcare industry.
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Peck, Shaffer & Williams LLP is a national leader in public finance law. We have been serving as bond counsel since 1889, making Peck Shaffer one of the country’s very first bond counsel practices. Today, we are comprised of 46 attorneys devoted exclusively to public finance, one of the largest bond counsel practices in the country. This “boutique” practice provides our clients with a level of expertise that cannot be found in more traditional full-service law firms with limited bond departments.
In recent years, Peck Shaffer has been engaged in financings in nearly all 50 states. We have strong, long-term relationships with governmental issuers, and have worked with virtually every major investment banking firm and financial institution, as well as many of the financial advisory firms in the country. According to data compiled by Thomson Reuters and The Bond Buyer, Peck Shaffer has for many years ranked among the top 20 law firms nationally in terms of dollar amount of municipal bond financings approved annually.
Our experience ranges across the entire breadth of public finance, and we have helped hundreds of municipalities, states, school districts, universities, nonprofit institutions and others build roads, sewers, schools, airports, stadiums, hospitals, convention facilities, public housing and other economic development engines.
We believe our tax expertise deserves specific mention. Over the past two decades, the federal income tax implications of public finance have become been so extensive that nearly every financing requires the attention of attorneys intimately familiar with those laws. Peck Shaffer's Tax Department is unmatched in depth and experience. Three partners and two financial analysts are dedicated to providing support to the primary transaction attorneys and ongoing advice and counsel to our clients.
Peck Shaffer’s offices are located in Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Illinois, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Covington, Kentucky, and Denver, Colorado.
For more information, please visit
www.peckshaffer.com.
PrivaPlan Associates, Inc. is the leading authority in HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. Offering a wide array of products and services including guidance on: HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security, HIPAA Training, Meaningful Use Consultation, Security Risk Assessments and much more!
Our service line includes HIPAA training workshops, consultative seminars, audioconferences, teleseminars and webinars, and a variety of personalized consulting options. We offer seminars geared towards the use of the PrivaPlan™ HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance Resource Kit. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new
Multimedia HIPAA Training with Online Testing, a new, affordable product to assist organizations with HIPAA training which can be accessed at the user's convenience.
Additionally, PrivaPlan offers seminars and hands-on consulting related to Electronic Health Records and Practice Management/HIS software including compliance, needs and workflow assessments, search and selection, and implementation.
The Colorado Rural Health Center has made PrivaPlan Associates Inc. its official HIPAA compliance vendor, providing ongoing training and education to its members as well as endorsing the PrivaPlan HIPAA Privacy and Security Resource Kit.
Click here to visit PrivaPlan's website.
Rx Remote Solutions (RemoteSolutions) provides safe, efficient off-site medication order verification and processing services which meet The Joint Commission, CMS and other regulatory agency standards, HIPAA regulations and applicable state licensing requirements.
Hospitals and health care facilities without 24/7 pharmacy services face the challenge of affordably providing around the clock medication safety practices to maintain patient care levels and comply with regulatory standards. This issue is compounded by the ever-increasing costs of recruiting and retaining highly trained, licensed pharmacy professionals. RemoteSolutions is the answer to this challenge. RemoteSolutions pharmacists are an extension of your pharmacy service, adhering to your organization's policies, procedures and values. RemoteSolutions pharmacists are available 24/7 to answer questions and will contact your nursing staff or physician should consultations be necessary. Pharmacy records are updated and current, allowing your facility's on-site pharmacy staff to focus efficiently on its daily responsibilities.
“RemoteSolutions has eliminated 3 hours a day previously needed for order entry from each night shift, which permits my day shift time to implement patient safety goals and cost-effective clinical initiatives. Overtime hours have been virtually eliminated at a cost approaching $30,000 per year. We could not be more pleased with the professionalism, customer service provided and the excellent feedback received on interventions conducted by RemoteSolutions.”
RemoteSolutions is driven to provide cost effective, extraordinary quality and exemplary customer service to hospital pharmacies across the country. RemoteSolutions centralizes seamless continuity of care, patient safety, HIPAA compliance and quality monitoring allowing for peer-to-peer interaction, as opposed to remote/home-based individual pharmacist review.
Click here to visit RxRemote Solution's website.
Unique Solutions Associates, Inc. is now a preferred provider with the Colorado Rural Health Center. Unique Solutions Associates (USA) is a creative platform that enables key decision makers to reduce cost and improve productivity by connecting with USA’s panel of SolutionsProviders™. Their SolutionsProviders™ offer unique products and services that produce exceptional results.
Ed Cody, CEO of USA, was formerly a partner in a top 20 CPA and consulting firm. He led their healthcare consulting practice to become one of the largest 15 practices in the country. Ed created the USA platform to enable decision makers to quickly and confidently enter into relationships with pre-qualified, entrepreneurial companies known as USA SolutionsProviders™. Ed and the Associates of USA use their many years of industry experience and knowledge to create win-win relationships that continue for years.
USA is also a preferred partner with the South Carolina Office of Rural Health and the Western North Carolina Health Network. In these and other relationships, USA and its Unique SolutionsProviders™ have helped hundreds of hospitals and other healthcare providers.
These solutions have resulted in several million dollars of savings and additional revenues. USA is excited to bring these unique solutions to the members of CRHC and will be working with the staff to focus on key areas needed by the membership.
Click here to visit Unique Solutions Associates website.
As I watched the Super Bowl this year the one commercial that resonated with me was the commercial from Chrysler that highlighted the importance of America’s farmers. Our rural communities provide the food supply for our country and nearly 40% of our armed forces are served by men and women from rural communities. Yet only 2% of the total Medicare budget is spent on the Critical Access Hospitals. Colorado communities represent 31.6 million acres of farmland across the state, $7 billion annually is contributed to the state’s economy through agriculture, and maintains over 105,000 jobs (Ag in the Classroom, 2010).
