Weekly Policy Update: Trump Administration Takes Step to Encourage Direct Discounts to Patients

On Tuesday President Trump gave his State of the Union address, in which he described the need to rein in health care costs as a major priority. The President also laid out an ambitious health care ag...

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Colorado BioScience Association Appoints Emily Roberts as New Vice President

Roberts to Oversee Policy and Communications at Life Science Organization DENVER – Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) announces the appointment of Emily Roberts to vice president. Roberts takes ov...

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Weekly Policy Update: Prescription Drug Importation and CBSA’s Day at the Capitol

Yesterday the Colorado BioScience Association testified in opposition to Senate Bill 005, which tasks the department of health care policy and financing to design a program to import prescription phar...

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Weekly Policy Update: Colorado Bioscience Championed in Denver Business Journal

Colorado BioScience Association is focused on increasing our companies’ access to capital and highlighting the innovative work coming out of our state. Our team recently collaborated with the Denver B...

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Weekly Policy Update: Importing Drugs and the Governor's Budget

Last week CBSA took an opposition position to Senate Bill 005 – Import Prescription Drugs from Canada. As a reminder this bill would create the "Colorado Wholesale Importation of Prescription Drugs Ac...

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Weekly Policy Update: New General Assembly, Inauguration, and Bill Introductions

This marks the first full week of the 72nd First Regular Session of the Colorado General Assembly. It was a busy week with bill introductions, Governor Polis’ Inauguration and the State of the State (...

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Weekly Policy Update: CBSA’s Policy Priorities for 2019

Today, January 4, 2019 marks the first of 120 days of the 72nd General Assembly. CBSA looks forward to advocating on behalf of our members, industry and the patients we serve. We also look forward to...

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Weekly Policy Update: More Medical Device Tax News and the 2018 Farm Bill

TheHouse Ways and Means Committee this week released a new extenders package which included a 5-year extension on the medical device excise tax moratorium. The 2.3% levy on the sale of prescribed medi...

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Weekly Policy Update: Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries and Medical Device Tax Work

A recent proposal by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would implement an unprecedented Part B demo that could harm Medicare beneficiaries. We believe this would alter the entire...

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Weekly Policy Update: November Recap

The November Focus newsletter was published this afternoon with Jennifer’s recap of the full month in policy news. Topics covered include: November Elections At the federal level Republicans have reta...

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