COIPA Advocate
COVID - 19 Preparedness
In this issue:

  • A Letter To Governor Brown and Mr. Allen
  • Carvan Health: Webinar Friday, March 20, 2020
  • Technical Assistance For EHR's
  • Telehealth Policy's During COVID-19
  • CMS Changes and Medicare Telehealth Billing Options
  • Disaster Relief Funding
  • COVID-19 Preparedness
  • Summit Medical Group: Telemedicine Virtual Visits
  • First Interstate Bank: Funding Options
  • Pacific Office Automation: At Home Work Stations

 
A letter to Oregon's Governor from our CEO & CMO
There is much concern for our members around the impacts of telehealth and remote visits for our medical providers across Oregon and COIPA's CEO & CMO are working to bring attention early.

Do Not Miss This Webinar!

Friday, March 20 @ 1:00pm ET
Caravan Health is hosting a webinar to help you develop strategies and address rule changes during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: 


Primary Care Strategies to Support Alternative Care Delivery Methods – Friday, March 20 at 1pm ET: Caravan’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anna Loengard will discuss best practices for caring for patients with varying levels of risk, billing and coding for population health services, and delivering virtual/at-home services.
T echnical Assistance for EHR's

During this crisis, James McCormack is available to help you remotely configure your EHR for televisits, build patient questionnaires, and check over patient portal settings for eClinicalWorks and Athena.

541-585-2590

James is COIPA’s Informatics Director and is a eClinicalWorks superuser. Since Friday, we have helped install eCW’s telehealth module at several clinics and have requests from several more. Nearly all of the build can be done remotely for cloud hosted clinics or by remote control for those who are locally hosted.

For Athena users, consultant and superuser Jensina Hawkins is available to help at COIPA’s expense.

COIPA is providing HIT services related to the coronavirus outbreak to members free of charge.
Telehealth Policy's for COIPA Members
Summary of CMS changes and Medicare telehealth billing options
Disaster Relief due to Washington's COVID-19 Outbreak

The following Oregon counties have been deemed eligible for disaster relief due to Washington’s Coronavirus outbreak: Gilliam, Hood River, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, and Wasco. Clinics in this area are eligible for a disaster loan.  
COIPA created a dedicated web page to help keep all of members well informed of the resources in our community's.

This will be updated as often as needed.
Clinics Needing Additional Funding During This Time

For our clinics needing information regarding obtaining a loan from First Interstate to assist with operations during the COVID-19 outbreak please reach out to:

Dawn Cofer
541-330-7555
Remote Workstation Assistance To POA Clients
The team at Pacific Office Automation can help with setting up at home workstations to help keep your office and staff going.

Sean Walsh
Doug Judish
541-388-1276

Summit Medical Group Of Oregon Begins Telemedicine Virtual Visits
Mission
COIPA is committed to our members' success by:
  • Providing sustainable support services
  • Incentivizing quality care
  • Engaging individuals for improvement
  • Partnering with the community
We want to hear all of the exciting changes, new services, promotions, and events that our members have scheduled in 2020 and share it monthly in the Advocate.

To submit your announcements call or email Autumn Wilson