Colorado MESA

Coming Soon!

 

Workshops


Brighton

  • Tuesday, February 21
  • 7:30 - 9:00 am
  • Platte Valley Medical Center

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Lakewood

  • Wednesday, February 29
  • 7:00 - 8:30 am
  • St. Anthony Central Hospital and Medical Center


Webinars

Register today for upcoming webinars or log in to watch archived past webinars!


February 3, 2012

ICD-9 Coding Tips & Tricks

With Shelly Thomas, CPC, and special guest speaker, Linda Farrington, CPC, CPC-I,  from Ingenix

NEW TIME: 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

No cost to participate

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March 2, 2012

Treating Advanced Alzheimer's and Other Dementias

With Donald Murphy, MD, and a representative of the Alzheimer's Association Colorado Chapter

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

No cost to participate

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April 6, 2012

Making Sense of PQRI

With Clemencia Rasquinha, MD, and Shelly Thomas, CPC

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

No cost to participate

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Welcome to the Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative

Colorado Primary Care Providers

Thanks to grants from The Colorado Health Foundation, The Kaiser Permanente Foundation, and Caring for Colorado, YOU can:


Become a Medicare Expert!

  • Be confident in your coding and documentation abilities
    • know the 2 key paths to billing success
    • know how to provide great geriatric patient care AND be paid appropriately
    • know the critical role of place of service
    • know, specifically, what Medicare pays
  • Learn key lessons from Colorado's largest geriatric practice
  • Understand that the Medicare program does pay fairly when you know how to document and code properly
  • Be comfortable serving seniors with the toughest clinical challenges

 

Increase Senior Access to Quality Healthcare!

  • Be comfortable serving seniors with the toughest clinical challenges
  • Learn how to partner with the Alzheimer's Association to support your patients and families facing Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
  • Learn effective and empathetic time management techniques
  • Implement techniques for working effectively in nursing homes and assisted living facilities

 

When you become a participant in the Colorado Mesa Initiative at no cost to you or your practice , you'll gain access to the M.E.S.A. training resources:


  • Face-to-face training workshops in your community
    • Medicare coding & documentation
    • The art of geriatric medicine
      • common disease states in seniors
      • emphasis on treating patients with dementia
    • Alzheimer's Association resources to support your practice
    • Time management techniques
  • Monthly webinars
    • Access from anywhere with an Internet connection
    • Participate live or view the archived sessions at your leisure
  • Web-based resources
    • Monthly e-newsletter with informative updates
    • Training videos and materials
    • Online discussion forum/community
  • Personalized followup activities
    • Progress notes audit and conference call
    • Conference call with one of our geriatric experts

Who Should Participate?

  • Physician practice leaders/owners
  • Physicians, NPs, PAs, & RNs who care for seniors
  • Practice administrators and managers
  • Billing office personnel
 

 

Gratitude

We at the M.E.S.A Initiative would like to thank the hospitals, groups, and organizations that have welcomed us into their facilities as we've traversed the great state of Colorado.

MESA II: March 2011 - Present

  • Mountain Valley Medical Center, Kremmling
  • Yampa Valley Medical Center, Steamboat Springs
  • Pioneers Medical Center, Meeker
  • The Medical Center of Aurora, Aurora
  • Swedish Medical Center, Denver
  • Pagosa Springs Medical Center, Pagosa Springs
  • Durango Public Library, Durango
  • Telluride Medical Center, Telluride
  • Montrose Memorial Hospital, Montrose
  • St. Vincent Hospital, Leadville
  • Rangely District Hospital, Rangely
  • Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Denver
View MESA I Workshops
 


Live Workshops

istock_000006105038xsmall1The Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative project covers the entire state of Colorado. We will visit each region, as defined by the Alzheimer's Association Colorado Chapter, with live training workshops according to the following timetable:

  1. Northern Region, Summer 2011
  2. Southwest Region, Summer 2011
  3. High Country, September 2011
  4. Denver Metro Region, throughout 2011 - 2012
  5. Colorado Springs Region, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012
  6. Greeley Region, Summer 2012
  7. Pueblo Region, Summer/Fall 2012
  8. Grand Junction Region, Summer/Fall 2012
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What Does "Meaningful Use" Mean to My Practice?

We've all heard the term, "Meaningful Use." But do you really understand what's encompassed and what it means for your primary care practice? We understand that some practices are well down the road of participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs while others ares still uncertain about what's involved.

The Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) has all the answers you need. Please visit their website and/or download this informative summary to learn more.

icon CORHIO Meaningful Use Summary

 
 

 

M.E.S.A. Initiative: Instruction, Ideas, and Inspiration

bagandscopeWe've all heard the disconcerting news: the population is aging and the supply of physicians serving our senior population is not growing proportionately. There's a dire shortfall of primary care physicians, especially in the rural areas of Colorado, and we're all feeling the impact.

Continued...
 

In the News

We've read the following articles and believe they may be of interest to Colorado primary care providers who take care of seniors.

Congress Mulling 2-Year 'Doc Fix' With No Raise

4 Drugs Cause Most Adverse-Event Hospital Stays for Seniors

Medicare 27.4% doctor pay cut set for 2012 unless Congress acts

Aging boomers exacerbate shortage of geriatricians

Meds prescribed for Alzheimer's may cancel each other out

Decline in doctor office visits could be permanent

Medicare to slightly reduce big physician pay cut in 2012

Big Medicare pay cut would shut physician doors to patients

MedPac recommends new "Doc Fix"

Surgery rate late in life surprises researchers

MedPac mulls 'doc fix' with no raises for ten years

Intranasal insulin promising for MCI, Alzheimer's disease

Hospitals pay physicians in Medicare bundled payment model

Shortage of physicians, APNs, PAs predicted for 2025

Medicare and the role of Colorado's Safety Net

Medicare plan to link cost to performance irks hospitals

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Disclaimer. The Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative does not provide legal advice regarding Medicare coverage or reimbursement matters. Users of this website and participants in The Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative project agree to indemnify and hold SCOC, AACC, and CHF harmless for any loss or damage arising in the performance of services and/or provision of information under The Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative. In no event shall SCOC, AACC, nor CHF be liable for any indirect, special, or consequential losses or damages suffered by any user of this website, any participant in The Colorado M.E.S.A. Initiative, or any third party.

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