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    Posts Tagged ‘conferences’

    Upcoming diversity, healthcare, and life sciences industry events

    Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

    Planning your event schedule for the upcoming quarters? Consider these events and benefit from special partner discounts. Be sure to use the codes listed below to take advantage of exclusive offers for our One Stop Global blog and Global Communicator readers.

    Bio/Pharmaceutical Market Research and Sales Forecasting Summit
    July 26-27, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
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    Health, Beauty, Fitness & Lifestyle Asia
    August 13-15, 2010, Manila, Philippines
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    Clinical Trials in Latin America
    September 9-10, 2010, Lima, Peru
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    Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
    October 18-21, Baltimore, MD
    Save $100 by registering before September 3, 2010!

    Risk-Sharing and Innovative Contracting
    October 21-22, 2010, London, UK
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    CBI’s 7th Patient Reported Outcomes
    November 17-18, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
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    4th Comparative Effectiveness Research Summit (co-located with 7th Patient Reported Outcomes)
    November 17-18, 2010, Philadelphia, PA
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    CMAC 2010 (Commercialization and Market Access Congress)
    December 8-9, 2010, Orlando, FL
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    Healthcare Reform and the Life Sciences Industry

    Friday, April 9th, 2010

    The recently approved healthcare reform legislation will extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, change practices for coverage limitations or denials for people with existing medical conditions, and enable the self-employed to purchase insurance through state-based exchanges. As one would expect, money to cover healthcare reform needs to come from somewhere. In addition to going after medical insurance fraud, several taxes are included in the legislation (many in the life sciences industry) to help pay the bills, including:

    Drug manufacturers would pay $16 billion between 2011 and 2019.

    Health insurers would pay $47 billion over the same period.

    Medical device manufacturers would pay a 2.9 percent excise tax on the sale of any of their wares, beginning Jan. 1, 2013. Earlier drafts of the bill called for the additional fees for medical device makers to go into affect this year, but the final bill delayed that until 2013.

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