Wednesday,
January 7, 2009
TODAY'S NEWS
Senate Finance Committee Chair Expects Economic Stimulus Bill Will Include Subsidies To Help Laid-Off Workers Retain Health Coverage Under COBRA
Boston Globe (Requires free, one-time registration)
CNN Medical Correspondent Could Be Next U.S. Surgeon General, Serve in White House Office of Health Reform
Washington Post (Requires free, one-time registration)
AARP Unveils Legislative Priorities for New Congress, Including U.S. Health Care Overhaul
The Hill
ALSO IN TODAY'S REPORTS
- CMS Finalizes Medicare Rule That Aims To Stop Pharmacy Benefit Manager Practice That Inflates Drug Costs for Some Beneficiaries, Wall Street Journal Reports
News summaries of these stories and more will be published at 11:30 a.m. ET in the complete Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report.
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Host: Olympus and The Lewin Group
Event: Discussion, "The 'GI' Gap: How the Aging Population and Increased Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates Create a Shortfall of Gastroenterologists"
Start Time: 11:00 AM
Event Contact: Christina Stafford, 703-741-7049; e-mail, cstafford@golinharris.com; or Mabinty Koroma, 703-741-7538; e-mail, mkoroma@golinharris.com. Please RSVP
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Host: Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Event: Conference call to release a new study detailing how U.S. radiation exposure regulations often fail women, children and other groups
Start Time: 11:00 AM
Event Contact: Arjun Makhijani, 301-270-5500
THURSDAY'S EVENTS (1/8/2009)
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Host: Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Event: Food As Medicine 2009, January 8-11
Location: Marriott San Francisco, 55 Fourth St., San Francisco, Calif.
Event Contact: 202-966-7338; e-mail, fam@cmbm.org; or e-mail, jcooper@cmbm.org
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Host: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Event: MedPAC Public Meeting, January 8-9
Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Event Contact: 202-220-3700; or visit Web site.
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Host: Department of Defense and Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Event: Meeting of the Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel to review and comment on recommendations made by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Start Time: 7:00 AM
Location: Naval Heritage Center Theatre, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Event Contact: Thomas Bacon, 703-681-2890; e-mail, baprequests@tma.osd.mil
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Host: HHS and Health Resources and Services Administration
Event: Meeting of the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps, January 8-10
Location: Hilton Washington, D.C./Rockville Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md.
Event Contact: Tira Patterson, 301-594-4140; e-mail, TPatterson@hrsa.gov
For a comprehensive list of upcoming National Health Policy events, please visit the
Calendar.
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