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I hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween. Beginning next week, the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (the Department) will begin our public notice and comment period for the 1115 waiver component of the Hospital Transformation Program (HTP).
We encourage stakeholders to regularly check the
HTP Waiver section
of the HTP website for information and updates before the waiver is submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 31, 2019. As always, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions.
Matt Haynes
Special Finance Projects Manager
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Update on 1115 waiver component of HTP
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Beginning next week, the Department will engage stakeholders, through public comment and public hearings, for the waiver component of HTP. As mentioned before,
we strongly encourage stakeholders to regularly check the
HTP Waiver section
of the HTP website for information and updates before the waiver is submitted to CMS on December 31, 2019.
Public Comment
The public notice pertaining to HTP will be published on November 10, 2019 to the
Colorado Register.
Upon publication, the Department will alert stakeholders via email and accept comments and inquiries until Sunday, December 15, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. MST. During the public comment period, comments may be sent to
COHTP@state.co.us
and submitted via the United States Postal Service using the following address:
Special Financing Division Director, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing
1570 Grant Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
ATTN: Public Comment - HTP DSRIP.
Public Hearings
The Department invites stakeholders to attend public hearings in person or to join by teleconference/webinar to learn more about Colorado's 1115 Demonstration application and provide comments.
We look forward to your engagement and feedback during this process.
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HTP measures and baseline data update
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Office of Behavioral Health hospital webinar
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On Friday November 8, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MST, the Department will be co-hosting a webinar with the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH). OBH will give an overview of their programs that intersect with hospitals, and discuss regulatory authority, youth and family behavioral health, adult treatment and recovery, and give an overview of the crisis system. Please contact Joe Sekiya for more information.
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In October, all HTP primary contacts were emailed login instructions from Microsoft titled "You're invited to the Optumas organization." These instructions will allow you to log onto the server to view your dashboards. Tableau Reader will no longer be used for dashboard viewing. If you feel the HTP primary contact is not the most appropriate person to have access to your hospital's dashboard, the primary contact must email the Prometheus team
to inform us who should be granted access for your hospital.
Please submit your questions ahead of time via email
. If no questions are received, and we do not have any topics in particular to discuss by the Wednesday prior to office hours, we will cancel this event on a week by week basis.
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Community Advisory Council
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Facilitated by staff from Keystone Policy Center, the Community Advisory Council (previously known as the Consumer Advisory Council) meeting took place on October 25 in Denver. Notes and an agenda from the meeting can be found on the
Community Advisory Council website
. Questions about the council should be directed to the Community Advisory Council
email box
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The next Colorado Healthcare Affordability and Sustainability Enterprise (CHASE) Board meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 19 at 3 p.m. at 303 E 17th Ave, Conference Room 11ABC, Denver, CO 80203. This CHASE meeting will be used as a public meeting to discuss the 1115 waiver component of HTP. Additional information about the public comment period can be found on the
HTP Waiver section
of the HTP website
. Those unable to attend in person are invited to access the meeting
via webinar
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HTP Newsletter + communications archive
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Did you miss an HTP Newsletter or email? No problem!
An archive
of past HTP Newsletters and email communications is available on the HTP website.
We encourage you to share this link with your staff and community partners.
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The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing complies with applicable federal and state civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic or national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, creed, political beliefs, or disability. Learn more about our Nondiscrimination Policy.
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