Transplants and Amputations Coding Guide
March 20, 2025 By: Brionna Benedetti, CPC, CRC Download the full guide: Transplants and Amputations Coding Guide Lizard Tails...
Cardiovascular Disease Coding Guide
January 20, 2025 By: Brionna Benedetti, CPC, CRC Download the full guide: Cardiovascular Disease Coding Guide Statistical Significance According...
2025 ICD-10-CM Code Changes
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CHPA Achieves Record $17.3 Million Medicare Savings in 2023, Marking Five Years of Consecutive Success – MSSP PY23
December 3, 2024 Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) delivered exceptional results in 2023, improving care for 13,124 Medicare beneficiaries...
2024 Food Bank Donations
December 2, 2024 When the CHPA network achieves shared savings by meeting quality and cost goals through value-based contracts—which...
Patients Need Your Help to Detect Chronic Kidney Disease
September 25, 2024 By: Autumn Orser, MD Download the quick guide: CHPA Kidney Health Evaluation KED for Patients with...
Mental Health and Suicide Awareness
September 16, 2024 By: Brionna Benedetti, CPC, CRC Download the full guide: CHPA 2024 Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Sept...
CHPA Celebrates National Health Center Week 2024
View the press release. Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) is proud to celebrate National Health Center Week (NHCW) 2024,...
New CEO & Upcoming Merger with CCMCN
July 17, 2024 Greetings CHPA Community, Hopefully you have heard, but we are excited to share that Community Health...
Cardiovascular Disease
July 3, 2024 By: Brionna Benedetti, CPC, CRC Download the full guide: CHPA July 2024 Coding Corner – Cardiovascular Disease...
Northwest Colorado Health wins Best in Class award
Northwest Colorado Health’s Community Health Center was recently awarded the Grand Champion Best in Class award for 2023 by...
Building Momentum: Thoughts From the CEO, May 2024
Greetings CHPA Community, You may know that I enjoy following sports. Lately, I have been even more immersed, particularly...
Queries: The 5 W’s of Effective Communications
By: Brionna Benedetti, CPC, CRC Download the full guide: Queries: The 5 W’s of Effective Communications What is a...
Colorectal Cancer and Screening for Cancer
By: Brionna Benedetti CPC, CRC Download the printable version An Ode to Neoplasms “Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and...
Advanced Illness and Frailty HEDIS Exclusions
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HCC and Risk Adjustment 101 Quick Guide
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Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) Celebrates 10 Years!
February 8, 2024 at 8:00 am When CHPA was established 10 years ago, nobody could have predicted what would...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Plea for Health Justice: Thoughts From the CEO, January 2024
Greetings CHPA Community, Martin Luther King Jr., a towering figure in the American civil rights movement, dedicated his life...
Controlling Blood Pressure and Medication Adherence
January 18, 2024 By: Leah Fitzgerald, PharmD, BCACP In 2024, CHPA will focus on three metrics that align across...
Health, Gratitude, and Radiance This Holiday Season: Thoughts From the CEO, December 2023
Greetings CHPA Community, In the heart of the holiday season, a time traditionally associated with gratitude and light, the...
2023 Food Bank Donations
December 14, 2023 When the CHPA network achieves shared savings by meeting quality and cost goals through value-based contracts,...
National COPD Awareness Month
By: Brionna Benedetti CPC, CRC November is a time of festivities, falling leaves, and crisp cool mornings that usher...
In Appreciation of Kerry Cogan
October 12, 2023 By: Ben Wiederholt, Interim Chief Executive Officer, CHPA Kerry Cogan passed away August 14, 2023 after...
CHPA Saves Medicare Money for Fourth Consecutive Year – MSSP PY22
October 12, 2023 Denver, Colorado — Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) improved care for 13,844 Medicare beneficiaries in Colorado...
Your Sherpa in the Everest of Value Based Care: Thoughts From the CEO, October 2023
Greetings CHPA Community, On September 22, 2023 the CHPA Board and members of our leadership team met for our...
2023 Common Combination Codes
By: Caliay Pratt, CPC, CDEO, CRC, CRHC What are combination codes? Combination codes can be utilized to represent a...
CHPA and NAACOS comments to CMS on 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Rule
September 13, 2023 at 12:00 pm On July 13, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released...
Lab Testing for Medicare Patients Cheat Sheet
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Patient Name Must Match What’s Listed on Insurance Card
By: BJ Dempsey Recent work with many CHC’s has identified a challenge. We frequently find patients using multiple versions...
The Lifeblood of Healthcare: Thoughts From the CEO, July 2023
Hello CHPA Community, We are members of the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS). They had a conference...
Improving Medication Adherence and Patient Experience
During the July 13th Operational Excellence webinar we learned about how to improve medication adherence and the patient experience....
Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) Coding
By: Caliay Pratt, CPC, CDEO, CRC, CRHC We have all seen it before, you open the chart, and it...
Thoughts from the CEO, May 2023
Hello CHPA Network, I came across some statistics the other day that stopped me in my tracks. It is...
Mental Health Awareness Month – Depression Coding Reimbursement
Mental health coding in the primary setting can be incredibly problematic for both the provider and the coding team....
10 Building Blocks of High-Performance Primary Care Practices
Dear Colleagues, We have been periodically covering the 10 building blocks of high-performance primary care practices. As you will...
Data Driven Improvement
By: Dr. Timothy Dudley Data makes up the backbone of high-performing practices. Data from meaningful measures is published quickly,...
Fiscal 2023 ICD-10 Updates
By: Diana Hope, CPC, CRC, CPC-P, CGSC The new updates to the ICD-10-CM code system for 2023 include 1,176...
Thoughts from the CEO, March 2023
Hello CHPA community, The Colorado statewide healthcare leaders hosted a Health Cabinet Affordability Summit on March 15, 2023. The...
CMS Case Study Featuring Clinica Family Health
CHPA is proud to share a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) case study featuring Clinica Family Health....
Loretta Lathon Leading Certification Courses as Licensed AAPC Instructor
February 8, 2023 at 8:00 am Loretta Lathon, CPC, CRC, CDEO, who joined CHPA as a Risk Adjustment &...
Thoughts from the CEO, Feb 2023
Hello CHPA Community, Have you ever experienced a new person, place, or thing and then suddenly it seems like...
Brandi Apodaca Named Chief Operating Officer
February 1, 2023 at 8:00 am Brandi Apodaca was named Chief Operating Officer on February 1, 2023. She has...
Anthem Commercial Cost Data Findings
By: Dr. Timothy Dudley, Medical Director We took a deep dive into the Anthem Commercial cost data and would...
2022 Food Bank Donations
December 20, 2023 at 8:00 am When the CHPA network achieves shared savings by meeting quality and cost goals...
Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visits (Part 3 of 3): Additional Services that can be Billed with AWV’s
By: Christine Smidt, BA, CPC, CRC, Risk Adjustment & Quality Specialist, CHPA Listed below are five screening tools that...
Kidney Health HEDIS Measure
By: Dr. Timothy Dudley, Medical Director Kidney Health is a relatively new HEDIS measure introduced in 2020 and many...
Thoughts from the CEO, Nov 2022
This time of year always reminds me of the fluidity of life and the swift pace at which it...
Clarification on Blood Pressure Readings
By: BJ Dempsey, Practice Transformation Manager, Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) For 2022, the UDS the blood pressure (BP)...
Test Taking Tips for your AAPC Coding Exam
October 3, 2022 at 8:00 am By: Loretta Lathon, CPC, CRC, CDEO The best strategy to prepare for the...
CHPA Earns High Quality Marks, Saves Medicare Money – PY21
Full press release linked here: CHPA Press Release 10/3/2022 Denver, Colorado — Community Health Provider Alliance (CHPA) improved care for 13,998 Medicare beneficiaries in...
CHPA and NAACOS comments to CMS on 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Rule
September 6, 2022 at 8:00 am On July 7, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released...
Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visits (Part 1 of 3)
By: Christine Smidt, BA, CPC (CHPA) The Medicare wellness visit is an annually covered visit that allows you and...
CHPA Earns High Quality Marks, Saves Medicare Money – MSSP PY20
October 1, 2021 at 8:00 am Full press release linked here: CHPA Press Release 10/1/2021 CHPA BOD 2020 MSSP Savings...
CHPA Earns High Quality Marks, Saves Medicare Money – MSSP PY19
October 1, 2020 at 8:00 am Full press release linked here: CHPA Press Release 10/1/2020 Salud Family Health Center 2019...
CHPA and NACHC comments to CMS on Proposed Pathways to Success MSSP rule changes
October 16, 2018 at 8:00 am In an article released by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Abigail...
New Participants Join Several CMS Alternative Payment Models
Numbers demonstrate provider commitment to a health care system with better care, healthier people, and smarter spending. January 24,...
