Healthcare
Grants Available for Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) Foundation’s Fostering Effective Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care grant initiative may be a potentially valuable opportunity for your business or someone you know. BCBSMA is now accepting Letters of Inquiry (LOI) for the 2015-2018 funding year, due July 29, 2015. BCBSMA is focused on ensuring that […]
Navigating Charity Evaluators
How nonprofits can positively impact their rating Communication and transparency are paramount for companies looking to win over advocates in the information age, and the nonprofit sector is no exception. Just as Yelp transformed business reviews and TripAdvisor changed the way the world chooses vacation destinations, evaluation tools are impacting donor perception of charities. The […]
Transitioning to New Medicare PPS for Community Health Centers
Medicare PPS Implementation: What FQHCs Need to Know Part 1: Medicare PPS Implementation: Understanding Your Implementation Date and Rates On May 2, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule establishing a new methodology and prospective payment system (PPS) for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) under Medicare Part B. Currently, […]
Proposed Nonprofit Financial Statement Format Changes
On April 22, 2015, the FASB issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) entitled Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) and Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities. The proposed ASU is intended to improve the financial reporting of not-for-profit entities (NFPs) and to provide more useful information to the donors, creditors, […]
CHC Cost Reports Due April 1st and iNet is Now Fully Functional
As a reminder, the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) has recently taken charge of the iNet data reporting system. This system is used to file Community Health Center (CHC) Medicaid cost reports, and review payment and expenditure data on transactions with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The June 30, 2014 CHC cost reports were […]
AAFCPAs Medicare FQHC PPS Training
Are you on target to implement the new Medicare Prospective Payment System? AAFCPAs, in collaboration with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, will present Medicare FQHC PPS Training on March 26, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton Boston – Westborough, MA. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act […]
Health Center Compliance with the Federal 340B Program
The Federal 340B Program has detailed compliance requirements and participants are struggling to understand, comply with, and monitor these requirements. Scrutiny by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) had been mainly focused on for profit hospital environments; however, the focus is now shifting towards Health Centers and contracted pharmacies. HRSA along with the Office of […]