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Your home for health care advocacy updates straight from Colorado's Capitol Hill. |
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2021 Legislative Session Resumes; 300 Bills Introduced in First Four Days
The Colorado General Assembly returned to the Capitol last Tuesday, after a month-long recess fueled by concern over post-holiday COVID surges. They wasted no time, introducing 100 bills in the first day, many of which had unprecedented opportunity for stakeholder input during the recess.
Here are some health care bills we're watching:
- SB21-016 Protecting Preventive Health Care Coverage
- SB21-011 Pharmacist Prescribe Dispense Opiate Antagonist
- HB21-1107 Protections for Public Health Dept. Workers
- HB21-1005 Health Care Services Reserve Corps Task Force
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Register for the upcoming Policy Pulse Live Town Hall: March 10th at 6p.m. |
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Policy Pulse Live: 2021 Bills Impacting Physicians
Wednesday, March 10; 6:00 p.m.
Join us to learn about the potential impacts of the legislative session on your practice
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Your news for health care bills and the work of the Council on Legislation.
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Update on the fight to protect confidentiality in the peer assistance program |
The full Colorado Medical Board met on Thursday, 2/18, and marked up a new policy draft designed to clarify eligibility and reporting requirements for Colorado Medical Board applicants and licensees who voluntarily seek treatment through the Board’s designated peer health provider.
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The CPHP Peer Assistance Contract has been extended through April 30, 2021 and still protects the confidentiality of current participants. Please, if you need help, do not hesitate to take advantage of the current program. |
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CMS thanks the many physicians who answered our call to speak out about the importance of confidentiality during CMB stakeholder meetings earlier this month. The hope is that this new policy, once finalized, will ensure the necessary confidentiality protections for physicians. However, CMS continues to have questions that must be answered before this issue is resolved. The draft policy should be available soon and will then become the subject of more stakeholder meetings in the coming months. Watch for details. Pending outcomes and recommended further refinements from the stakeholder meetings, the Board is scheduled to meet again on May 20 and may finalize a new policy at that point. |
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Your Contributions to COMPAC and the Small Donor Committee Support Pro-Physician Candidates |
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Thank you to our recent COMPAC and SDC donors!!
Jan Gillespie Wagner, MD
Steven Gammon, MD
Matthew Hevey, MD
Robert Gates Jr, MD
Andrew Ross, MD
Gina Carr, MD
Naveed Ismail, MD
Verne Smith, MD
Herbert Maruyama, MD
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Special thanks to the Partners In Medicine |
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Upcoming events for physicians |
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Upcoming CMS committee meetings |
All Colorado Medical Society committee meetings are open to all CMS members. Find the latest list of events on the CMS events webpage, cms.org/events. Upcoming meetings for January are listed below with registration links.
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Workers' Compensation and Personal Injury Committee - Wednesday, Mar 3, 7:30 a.m. Register here
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Council on Legislation - Wednesday, Mar 3, 6 p.m. Register here
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Policy Pulse Live Town Hall - Wednesday, Mar 10, 6 p.m. Register here
Registration is required; non-members or those unable to be identified at the time of the meeting will be removed from the meeting. Unsure if you are a CMS member? Email membership@cms.org.
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