"Provider Fee"
Set to Begin
The feds approved Colorado's year-old plan to increase
Medicaid coverage and improve government payer reimbursement. UCH's share
of the initial $85 million pool
for hospitals: a little under
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Why Does the Hospital Get Denied?
For want of a signed notice or some other botched documentation, Medicare has denied $1.4 million in claims from UCH in the past 18 months. The hospital's brought in reinforcements to help stop the bleeding. Plus: the art of avoiding denials. |
| | Kirk Turner (right) with chef Richard Sandoval at last December's "Frosted" event, which raised nearly $25,000 for care for cancer patients at The Center for Integrative Medicine. |
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One Man's Painful Loss, and a Lot of People's Gain
A chance observation at Integrative Medicine's front desk led a grieving husband to dedicate himself to helping less fortunate care seekers. He's out to raise $100,000 to help cancer patients get the complementary and alternative care that helped his wife. |
| | Valerie Graham (left) and Kate Kelsall volunteer for the hospital as liaisons between deep brain stimulation candidates and the hospital's clinical team. |
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DBS Patients Make
Most of New Lives
Two active-again Parkinson's patients lend support to UCH patients preparing for or undergoing deep brain stimulation, a complex therapy that creates a kind of pacemaker for the brain that helped control their symptoms. Now they've carried their battle against the disease far beyond the hospital's walls. |
| | Patient and Family-Centered Care Advisory Council members Carl Miler and Monique McCollum helped produce welcoming video for UCH patients. |
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Lights. Camera. Welcome to the Hospital.
A new hospital-made video, featuring former patients and real providers, is scheduled to debut next month in patient rooms. The goal: show patients and families how to find what they need, how to stay safe and what to expect during their stay. |
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Epic's first "go-live" set for February 2011 With a just-finished map for how to juggle a dizzying number of factors, the hospital has scheduled when the first wave of Ambulatory clinics will start using the new EMR. Seven months later: a "big bang" for the inpatient units. Plus: the project unveils its new "mark."
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Scoreboard The latest about which patient care and organizational goals we're exceeding, which we're meeting and which we still haven't met. The prizes: happier patients, providers and staffers; a healthy organization; and -- maybe -- bonuses later this year.
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I-225 access to campus starts Phase II 22,000 cars visit the campus and immediate neighbors each day, and the number is likely to double by 2020. Bruce Schroffel joined Aurora Mayor Ed Tauer, Representative Ed Perlmutter and other dignitaries to turn the first shovels of dirt on what will be a new campus highway entrance at 17th Ave. Still required for completion: $20 million.
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Depression and pregnancy They're not often thought of together, but as many as 13 percent of perinatal women suffer depressive episodes, and primary care providers, including OB/Gyns and midwives, aren't always on the lookout for them. The campus's Mood Disorder Clinic -- the only such resource in the state -- is out to change that.
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Inside the Insider Commentary: what spring's crazy weather can teach the hospital. Plus: "What You Read" and, in the Final Word, letters about the future of print and the heartbreak of identity theft.
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Compliance wants to friend you The hospital's chief compliance officer aims to explode "Big Brother" suspicions and forge a culture of trust among employees. Her new program, "Integrity Matters," which includes an anonymous "tip line" for reporting misconduct, is about to launch.
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A Thornton rescue leads back to UCH and TCH Transplant coordinator Nancy Dabrowski (left), working out at a local gym, jumped to the aid of a stricken woman on the treadmill behind her. Then the story got really strange.
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A medical tourism uptick Last year, a patient from Russia journeyed here to get care at the Cancer Center. Now, thanks to a new tie to the State University of Novgorod, another Russian patient already is on her way here.
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2,575 years at UCH One hundred twenty-nine much-experienced UCH-ers, plus 16 of their just-retired colleagues, gathered April 7 to mark another milestone. In all, they represented 2.5 millennia of treating patients and making the hospital go. Above: Bruce Schroffel congratulates 20-year employee Karen Dorsey, RN, of Advanced Reproductive Medicine Plus: photos and a list of all the honorees.
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UCH in the News The passing of H1N1; pumping the protein; "stemming" disease; more. Mentions: Michelle Barron; Fred Hirsch; Stephanie Houghton; Nancy Krebs; Patricia McShane; Jeffrey Olson; Dennis Roop; William Schlaff; Marianne Wamboldt.
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Around UCH Our regular round-up of goings-on, big and small, in and around the hospital. This issue: donation days (left); "People Make It Possible" celebrations coming up; "Top Docs" voting; "Take Your Kids to Work"; more...
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Dean Krugman's News What's going on at the School of Medicine.
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