“Colorado submitted its State Health Innovation Plan (SHIP) to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in December. You can access a copy of Colorado's SHIP here. Since the start of 2014, the SIM management team has been meeting regularly to maintain momentum on this project. More specifically, we've been working with our CMMI project manager to identify potential areas for improvement, communicating with payers and providers to try to refine our "asks" related to SIM implementation, and laying the groundwork for what we hope will be a successful application for additional federal dollars to support this work moving forward.
Speaking of dollars, we are hopeful that CMMI will release a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) sometime in the next month, which will allow Colorado to apply for additional implementation funds. Until the FOA is released, we won’t know how much funding is available, for how long the project will be funded, or what the funding parameters will be.
Those of you who were involved in our original SIM proposal in the Fall of 2012 likely recall that we had about 45 days to convene all of our partners and prepare a 200-page grant proposal. This funding round is likely to be on a similar timeline, so please keep an eye out for meeting announcements!
Before the FOA is released, we would love for you to become familiar with the SHIP and send us any feedback or concerns you have. This will allow us to more carefully target our outreach and conversations as we prepare the next grant proposal. You can send comments back to this address: simgrant@state.co.us. Thank you all for your continued interest and commitment in Colorado's SIM work.” [Source: Colorado SIM]
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