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Colorado Legislative Roundtable

Join the Colorado Legislative Roundtable to discuss the bills that became law in 2019. Learn about federal legislation, including the Safe Step Act and the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act. Get updates on the Patients Over Paperwork Proposed Rule and the CMGMA/CMS Advocacy Collaboration.

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Colorado Legislative Roundtable

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  1. Colorado Legislative Roundtable Eric Speer, MBAHA, FACMPE Jennifer Souders, FAMCPE

  2. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable We’re at the Table!

  3. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Bills that Became Law

  4. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Bills that Became Law

  5. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Bills that Became Law

  6. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Bills that Became Law

  7. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Federal Legislation Eliminate copays for Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services - This Chronic Care Management Improvement Act (HR 3436) would remove the requirement to collect patient copays for CCM services, having Medicate pay 100% of the service Surprise Bills and Fair Physician Payments - this is a grassroots effort to urge Congress to hold insurers accountable for surprise medical bills.

  8. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Federal Legislation Safe Step Act of 2019 - Puts common sense parameters and reasonable timelines around the practice of step therapy. Medicare Care Coordination Improvement Act of 2019 - seeks to modernize Stark Law (self-referral) prohibitions to promote care coordination and facilitate participation in APMs.

  9. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Federal Legislation Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2019 – supports expanding the physician workforce Improving Seniors Timely Access to Care Act of 2019 – This bill aims to increase transparency and streamline the prior authorization process for MA plans by: Requiring MA plans to support electronic PA Requiring MA plans to make real-time PA decisions Exempting pre-op services from PA Requiring MA plans to publicly reveal what services require PA, how many are approve and how long they take to approve

  10. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable Federal Legislation MGMA makes it incredibly easy to contact your congressional leaders: "Contact Congress" Portal Patients Over Paperwork Proposed Rule for 2019 Public Comment Period Ended 8/12/19 Sign Up for email Updates Get the latest Patients over Paperwork newsletters

  11. 2019 Colorado Legislative Roundtable CMGMA/CMS Advocacy Collaboration Goal: To provide effective data-driven advocacy on behalf of physicians and their practices Purpose: To establish a mechanism for CMGMA to inform the AMS advocacy team of issues directly impacting physicians’ practices Who: CMGMA Legislative Liaison will represent CMGMA on the CMS Council on Legislation and will be the conduit for getting information to and from CMS relative to advocacy/legislative issues Process: CMGMA will create a subcommittee of specialty practice leaders representing a multitude of specialties and practice settings with the purpose of gaining a cross-section of perspectives on legislative or administrative issues.

  12. 2019 Colorado Legislative Update Questions? Eric Speer ESpeer@centenoschultz.com Jen Souders Jennifer.soduers@uchealth.org

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