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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. Any contractual clause that limits or penalizes providers for sharing this information would be unenforceable.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? Ruth: And then to answer your question also about the different providers as far as nurses and physicians and respiratory therapists and pharmacists, most schools of medicine, nursing and all those other fields are including some climate change in their curriculum.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

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. It is the fastest rising group in the country, and some colleagues and demographers did work in three big cities around the country, New York, LA, and Boston. Eric: Oh, wow.