CMS elects new leaders, sets policy at 2012 annual meeting

Delegates at the Colorado Medical Society annual meeting inaugurated Jan Kief, MD, as president and elected John Bender, MD, as president-elect at the 142nd meeting of the Colorado Medical Society this past weekend.

Important policy decisions made at the meeting included the approval of a major plan to ensure the future relevance of CMS to all physicians regardless of practice setting, how to respond to Referendum 64 concerning the recreational use of marijuana and active debate on whether the state of Colorado should voluntarily expand Medicaid via federal health care reform.