Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. The patient was enrolled in a cost-sharing program that reduced her out-of-pocket expenses by 70%, allowing her to access the medication.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Salahuddin Kazi, MD, Chair, Rheumatology Board The Rheumatology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 11, 2025. Chrostowski, DNP, APRN, ANP-C , Maryah Mansoor, MD , and Philip Seo, MD , whose terms on the Specialty Board end June 30, 2025.

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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. They presented a rapid clinical update Webinar in May 2025 hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. ” That is why, she added, anti-obesity medications are such an important strategy in long-term management.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Additionally, health insurers would be barred from taking adverse action against providers for providing cost transparency.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

These included how well physicians demonstrated respect, listened to individuals, explained information, and spent enough time with them. These outcomes were adjusted for variables including age, race, ethnicity, income, health insurance, educational status, and coexisting medical conditions.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? For those individuals, how do you think about that?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. And they can start July of 2025.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

PART 1: MAXIMUM FAIR PRICE PAYMENT LIMITATION UNDER MEDICARE PARTS B AND D AND THE COMMERCIAL INSURANCE MARKET. Beginning in 2025, payment for certain “Selected” single source drugs under Parts B and D, and under commercial plans that do not opt out of the program, would be limited to a Maximum Fair Price (MFP).

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