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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. The bill addresses Medicare supplement policies and individual health plans , including: Allowing Medicare supplement policies to factor in late enrollment and reenrollment when determining premiums. Read a summary of S.F.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. The foundational literature in this area has furthered stigma and bias, especially towards Black birthing persons.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. I’m sure we all have the same issue.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer? And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. So, like, I don’t.