Category: Articles
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CMS Exclusive: AI Tools for Your Independent Practice
Read More: CMS Exclusive: AI Tools for Your Independent PracticeExclusive 10%* discount for CMS members – streamline tasks, reduce burnout. As an independent practice owner, you wear countless hats. We know the administrative burden, staff shortages, and ever-changing regulations often overshadow the true joy of patient care. In fact, physician burnout remains a critical challenge for practices just like yours here in Colorado. But…
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Service Area Reductions (SAR)
Read More: Service Area Reductions (SAR)By Mary Jo Heins, Medicare Insurance Help, CMS Partner in Medicine In my 15 years of doing Medicare, this is unprecedented. Insurance companies are reeling and terminating/discontinuing Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage plans have a service area based on the county in which a patient lives. Patients are now receiving Service Area Reductions (SAR) letters…
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Method II Billing – Recent changes from federal CMS
Read More: Method II Billing – Recent changes from federal CMSAction Steps presented by www.cred2bill.com As you are aware, credentialing and billing are deeply interdependent, and recent updates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (federal CMS) effective July 1, 2025, have introduced changes that impact this relationship particularly with respect to billing types and Facility Setup. Your Credentialing Team must be knowledgeable about…
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CMS supports coverage of COVID-19 vaccines
Read More: CMS supports coverage of COVID-19 vaccinesThe Colorado Medical Society (CMS) joined nine state-level organizations representing patients, physicians and hospitals in a letter in support of the proposed emergency regulation ensuring COVID-19 vaccines are covered as a preventive service. “Clear guidance, dependable coverage, and equitable access to immunizations are critical,” the organizations wrote in the letter, sent Sept. 10, 2025, to…
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AAP Releases Evidence-Backed Immunization Schedule
Read More: AAP Releases Evidence-Backed Immunization ScheduleProvided by: David Higgins, MD, MPH, FAAPAAP-CO Vice President As respiratory virus season approaches, the American Academy of Pediatrics has published an evidence-based immunization schedule that includes updated guidance for influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 immunizations for children and adolescents from birth to age 18. The schedule, “Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: United States, 2025,” was published…
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Colorado ensures access to updated COVID-19 vaccines
Read More: Colorado ensures access to updated COVID-19 vaccinesColorado Gov. Jared Polis and CDPHE are taking action to help ensure Coloradans can access the updated COVID-19 vaccine. CDPHE Executive Director Jill Hunsaker Ryan issued Public Health Order 25-01 and CDPHE Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ned Calonge issued a complementary statewide standing order to make COVID-19 vaccines available to Coloradans aged 6 months and older this fall…
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Feedback requested on communicable disease regulations
Read More: Feedback requested on communicable disease regulationsThe Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response and the Office of STI, HIV, and Viral Hepatitis at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are proposing changes to 6 Code of Colorado Regulations 1009-1 (6 CCR 1009-1): Epidemic and Communicable Disease Control. 6 CCR 1009-1 names the communicable diseases that are reportable to…
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Colorado Medical Society Launches Your Care is at our Core
Read More: Colorado Medical Society Launches Your Care is at our CoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 15, 2025Contact: Kate Alfano, Director of Communications, Colorado Medical SocietyPhone: 720-859-1001Email: kate_alfano@cms.org Denver, Colo. – The Colorado Medical Society is proud to launch Your Care is at our Core, a new communications and advocacy strategy, in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA). The goal of the campaign is to strengthen…
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Cover: My most difficult case
Read More: Cover: My most difficult caseJack L. Berry, MD In the end, it’s all about people’s lives. How to make them live better, how to make them live longer, and sometimes it’s about how to save them even though in doing so one can’t make their lives better. It had been the toughest night of my medical career when I…
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President’s Letter: Your Care is at our Core highlights sacred bond between patients and physicians
Read More: President’s Letter: Your Care is at our Core highlights sacred bond between patients and physiciansKim Warner, MD, CMS President This will be my last President’s letter as my term ends in September. It has truly been an honor to serve my fellow physicians over the past year, which has gone entirely too quickly. I recall just a few short months ago during my inauguration speech I talked about the…