Welcome to your daily briefing on healthcare developments in Colorado. Today we're covering 5 key stories including updates on colorado healthcare headlines, background & context. Let's dive in.
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The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment now provides a geospatial dataset mapping regulated health facilities as point locations.
Healthcare professionals across Colorado can leverage this standardized facility data for network planning, resource allocation, and emergency preparedness.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published provider revalidation information accessible through its online data tool.
Colorado healthcare professionals can verify their Medicare enrollment status and avoid payment disruptions by staying current with federal revalidation requirements.
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Covered entities must annually recertify their 340B eligibility through HRSA. Missing the recertification window pushes the entity to inactive status, which means immediate loss of 340B pricing and potentially diversion violations on previously dispensed drugs. Reinstatement requires a new application.
The discount value of 340B pricing for a covered entity often exceeds six figures annually. Letting the recertification lapse for paperwork reasons is one of the most expensive administrative errors in the regulation.
The MIPS cost performance category is calculated retrospectively by CMS using attributed Medicare claims; clinicians cannot directly affect what is attributed. The two attribution methods (TPCC and MSPB) capture different beneficiary cohorts. Practices that try to "manage" cost without understanding which patients are attributed to which clinician typically waste effort.
Cost is now 30% of the MIPS final score — the largest single category. Misunderstanding attribution is the leading cause of unfavorable payment adjustments in the next cycle.
OSHA inspections of healthcare facilities most commonly find three violations: an Exposure Control Plan that has not been reviewed annually (date-stamped review required), engineering controls that have not been re-evaluated when new devices are introduced, and post-exposure protocols that do not match the actual reporting workflow.
Each citation carries per-violation penalties, and willful or repeat designations multiply them. Re-evaluation paperwork is the cheapest control to maintain.
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