Showing posts with label Family Planning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family Planning. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Financial Sustainability Calculator for Safety-Net Family Planning Centers

A new online tool created by the Guttmacher Institute will help safety-net health centers that provide family planning services assess their financial sustainability in an evolving U.S. health care system. Specifically, it will enable centers to estimate the extent to which they are maximizing reimbursement from Medicaid and private insurance. 
Click HERE for more information.  

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

CHOICE Contraceptive Counseling Webinar: January 7th

“Registration is now open for the CHOICE Project Contraceptive Counseling Webinar on January 7th! Provided by the Contraceptive CHOICE Project at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the Contraceptive Counseling Webinar will teach non-clinicians and clinicians alike to deliver comprehensive, medically-accurate, non-biased contraceptive counseling.

The contraceptive counseling model was utilized in the CHOICE Project, a large cohort study of St. Louis women and their contraceptive choices. Among the results, the study indicates that contraceptive counseling can be effectively provided by non-medical staff and that women choose highly effective contraceptive methods when given accurate, comprehensive information and when cost barriers are removed.

The webinar will take place on Tuesday, January 7th from 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. MST; there is no cost to participate. Click here to register now.  For more information please see the flier or contact cdphe_familyplanning@state.co.us.”  [Source:  CDPHE]

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Coding and Billing Workshops coordinated by The Family Planning Unit at CDHPE

“The Family Planning Unit at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is working with RT Welter & Associates to coordinate three regional coding and billing workshops! The workshops will provide coding and billing information in a three-hour morning session, from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Although discussion will focus on family planning clinic-specific billing and coding, most of the information provided will be helpful for any health care clinic new to billing and coding. Topics include: the revenue cycle, billing basics, collections, diagnosis codes, evaluation and management (E & M) coding, ICD-10, and family planning clinical scenarios. Title X clinics receive priority registration; if a waitlist develops, non-Title X clinics may lose their registration spaces.

Clinic staff also have the option to sign up for a half-hour, one-on-one technical assistance session, offered between 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Workshops will be held in:
  • Grand Junction (Friday, November 8th at Community Hospital),
  • Boulder (Thursday, November 21st at Via Mobility Services), and in
  • Colorado Springs (Friday, December 6th at El Paso County Public Health).
To register, or for more information, click on the name of the city (above) to be taken to the event page. Please contact Callie Preheim at (303) 692-6268 or callie.preheim@state.co.us with any questions. [Source: CDPHE]

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

NEXPLANON® Clinical Training Program Offered October 17th

"Rural providers and advanced practice clinical staff attending the 22nd Annual Colorado Rural Health Conference, October 17-18, 2013 in Colorado Springs as well as other providers and advanced practice staff wanting to learn and be certified in NEXPLANON® (etonogestrel implant) insertion and removal are invited to attend a training on the evening of October 17th.

The training will follow the first day of the Colorado Rural Health Center Conference at the Hotel Elegante. There is no fee to attend the training, but space is limited and registration is offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. The training begins at 6:00 p.m. and is approximately three hours long. Dinner will be provided to registrants.

To register for the training, please complete the registration form (click here) and fax it to Advanced Health Media (AHM) at 1-866-316-1091 (FAX). Only faxed registrations will be accepted. For questions about the conference, please call AHM, toll-free, at 1-866-700-9295." [Source: Family Planning Program at CDPHE]