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Kaiser First Edition
Tuesday,
August 19, 2008
TODAY'S NEWS
'Harry and Louise' Advertisements Return, Advocate for Health Care Reform
AP/Detroit Free Press
Wellcare To Pay $35.2M To Settle Medicaid Fraud Investigation
St. Petersburg Times
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: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Society for Quality and National Quality Forum
Event: Seventh Annual Quality Colloquium, August 18-21
Location: Inn at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.
Event Contact: Paul Tunnecliff, 775-537-2311; e-mail, registration@hcconferences.com; or visit Web site.
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Host: Health Care Conference Administrators
Event: The Privacy Symposium 2008: Privacy in Transition, August 18-21
Location: Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, Mass.
Event Contact: Paul Tunnecliff, 775-537-2311; e-mail, registration@PrivacySummerSymposium.com; or visit Web site.
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Host: Health Care Conference Administrators
Event: 16th National HIPAA Summit at Harvard, August 18-21
Location: Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, 1 Bennett St., Cambridge, Mass.
Event Contact: Paul Tunnecliff, 775-537-2311; e-mail, registration@hccconferences.com; or visit Web site.
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Host: National Conference of State Legislatures
Event: Webinar, "State Health IT Financing"
Start Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Webinar
Event Contact: 202-624-5400
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Host: Advanced Medical Technology Association
Event: Webinar to issue and discuss a report on the "appropriate use" of FDA's premarket notification process for medical devices
Start Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Webinar
Event Contact: Mark Brager, 202-745-5054; e-mail, mbrager@advamed.org. Please RSVP
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Host: HHS and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Event: Meeting, "Exploring the Science and Experience of Testing for Prescription Drugs in the Non-Regulated Workplace"
Start Time: 8:30 AM
Location: 1 Choke Cherry Rd., Sugarloaf Conference Room, Rockville, Md.
Event Contact: Giselle Hersh, 240-276-2605; e-mail, Giselle.Hersh@samhsa.hhs.gov
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Host: ACS CAN, American Hospital Association, Catholic Health Association, Families USA, and National Federation of Independent Business
Event: Unveiling of new "Harry and Louise" health care reform ad and press conference
Start Time: 10:00 AM
Location: National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Event Contact: Steve Weiss, 202-661-5711; Jennifer Armstrong Gay, 202-626-2342; Fred Caesar, 202-721-6321; Dave Lemmon, 202-628-3030; or Stephanie Cathcart, 202-314-2056
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Host: Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Event: Conference call to release the annual rates and rankings of adult obesity in the U.S. with the fifth annual "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America"
Start Time: 10:00 AM
Event Contact: Liz Richardson, 202-223-9870, ext. 21; e-mail, lrichardson@tfah.org; or Laura Segal, 202-223-9870, ext. 27; e-mail, lsegal@tfah.org. Please RSVP
For a comprehensive list of upcoming National Health Policy events, please visit the Calendar.
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