Friday’s Cliff: Nondefense Programs to be Slashed by Roughly 8%  WASHINGTON — Medicare providers stand to absorb $11 billion of the $85 billion in federal spending cuts that start Friday and last for the rest of the fiscal year unless Congress takes 11th-hour action. Under the impending sequester, Medicare...

  On Thursday, April 4 from 1:45-2:45, Jonathan Mathieu, Director of Data and Research at the Center for Improving Value in Health Care will discuss “Data, Transparency and Payment Reform.” Dr. Mathieu holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a B.S. in...

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Winston Wong, MD: Kaiser Permanente’s Support for Safety Net Organizations Forum keynote speaker Dr. Wong discusses the necessity to invest and strengthen safety net leaders in preparation for health care reform and the growing population of the newly insured.

On Thursday, April 4 from 11-12, Julia Hutchins, CEO of the Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative, will discuss the “Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative.” Julia has dedicated her career to improving access to health care for underserved populations. Prior to being appointed CEO of the CO-OP, she was Vice President of Business...

Sequestration, the automatic and across-the-board federal spending cuts that were specifically designed to be so painful that they never would occur, are likely to take effect on March 1st. This is different than what we were hearing just a few weeks ago. The 2% mandated cuts to Medicare totaling...