Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

Affiliation will allow groups to drive high-value care and innovation PORTLAND, ORE, April 16, 2025 – Oregon-based Northwest Permanente (NWP) and The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) of Northern California announced a formal affiliation today. TPMG comprises nearly 10,000 physicians in 116 specialties, providing care for 4.6

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

May 22, 2025 — The Permanente Federation has appointed Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA , to the National Permanente Leadership Team as executive vice president and chief quality officer and co-chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Quality Committee. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers. Now, in 2025, it’s both validating and heartbreaking to see the rise in IBD diagnoses in Peru. Specific Challenges in IBD Care Even in a country with advanced healthcare, living with IBD in the U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 7, 2025

Two recent cases from the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, however, support the legality of these arrangements in the absence of the government proving certain circumstances. Mallory , 988 F.3d 3d 730 (4th Cir. Sorenson follows the Fifth Circuits decision last year in United States v. Marchetti, 96 F.4th Marchetti, 96 F.4th Medicare or Medicaid).

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025. Press Release , Walgreens Agrees To Pay Up to $350M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and Submitting False Claims, U.S.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Erin Bonura, MD, Chair, ABIM Infectious Disease Board The Infectious Disease Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 25, 2025. JD , whose terms on the Specialty Board end June 30, 2025.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Since 1993, Congress has continued to direct the federal government, and in particular FDA, to take steps to close the gap in clinical research representation. FDORA directed FDA to finalize the draft DAP guidance no later than 9 months after closing the comment period, which will be June 26, 2025.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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Doctors for America

MAY 5, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 5, 2025 Doctors, Local Governments File Brief to Defend Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rights Brief Argues that Upending HIPAA Privacy Rights Would Contradict Decades of Established Precedent WASHINGTON, D.C.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. So that’s the macro environment and the role in this government policies, how this could play a role. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do? You got a magic wand?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal , June 5, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Kennedy Jr. More information The U.S. All rights reserved. The post RFK Jr.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Progress was made on reducing the burden of prior authorizations by the passage of LD 796.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

Match Day on March 21, 2025 unfolded similarly to the National Resident Matching Program in previous years. This is where the federal government must step up. Data must be shared and evidence compiled and then directly interpreted and acted on for program and policy decision making.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding that, for the years 2016-2018, the pharmaceutical industry spent on average for a sample of 553 drug products approximately $6 billion annually on DTC advertisements, with a significant portion of this spending allocated to television commercials. In 2021, the U.S.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 June 23, 2025 Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement WASHINGTON, D.C. – Prevent the use of patient information or healthcare settings to facilitate immigration enforcement.

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Doctors for America

MAY 21, 2025

Texas Attorney General Paxton challenges a 24-year-old regulation that serves as the foundation for medical privacy under HIPAA nationwide and a more recent regulation implemented by the Biden-Harris administration to support reproductive healthcare privacy in 2024. Two major U.S.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 26, 2025

The political battle went into gear on January 28, 2025, with an Executive Order titled Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation. The EO and DOJ memo were followed by a May 1, 2025 announcement of a report from the U.S. The gray box at the top of the document at this link shows the change in position. 149, 158 (2014).

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Doctors for America

APRIL 29, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 April 29, 2025 FDA Task Force Statement on President Trump’s First 100 Days in Office WASHINGTON, D.C. As we approached this milestone, Doctors for America’s (DFA) FDA Task Force has been reflecting on President Trump’s actions thus far.

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