Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I was in the East Coast last spring, we’re college touring because my oldest son’s senior in high school this year, and every college we went to had a big banner, Net Carbon-neutral by, and they all had a different date, 2030, 2045, whatever it was. Ruth: That’s not prevention, that’s screening.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. So someone who’s got, let’s say, a psychotic disorder and a substance use disorder, those services are going to be pretty intense case management to help them just manage their life.

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