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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. This bill would also require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover a colonoscopy based on a positive test result.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. So this is something. Of course.

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Less than Meets the Eye: LDT Small Entity Compliance Guide Adds Little Insight

FDA Law Blog

2] The regulations require manufacturers to establish a “formally designated [complaint handling] unit,” [3] which can be accomplished by describing the unit in a procedure and/or including a diagram that identifies individuals, activities, and departments that are charged with “…receiving, reviewing, and evaluating” complaints. [4]