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Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded

The Direct Doctors Difference

This recent Wall Street Journal article may have hit the nail on the head. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. The rollbacks of telehealth coverage are not helping.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities in Senate Omnibus Bill

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Audio-Only Telehealth This bill to include audio-only telehealth as a reimbursable option was also included in the Senate HHS omnibus bill. Including metachromatic leukodystrophy in the newborn screening program. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities. and satisfied certain requirements.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. 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. Nancy 04:51 Yeah.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen. I’m Na Ouyang. Eric 00:42 Great.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Eric 30:01 That’s beautiful.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

And to keep it short work for an article. Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Eric: Yeah. Alex: I like that.