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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. Mid-Year Formulary Changes – Limiting the ability of insurers to make coverage changes mid-year. Audio-Only Telehealth – Ensuring audio-only telehealth visits remain a reimbursable option.

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Social Risk Burden and Its Impact on Healthcare Use in IBD

Physician's Weekly

Hispanic), 64% (95% CI, 59-69%) reported social risks in 1 or more domains, including food insecurity (22%), financial hardship (28%), housing instability (14%), transportation needs (9%), education and employment (9%), and discrimination (41%). 10.2]) and cost-related medication non-adherence (OR, 11.8 [2.7-52.1]),

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Emmy: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Who do we have with us today? Katie: Yep.

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

GeriPal

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Because when you’re on a SNF stay, hospice is also a part A.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Remember, there’s an active transport metabolism for gabapentin, if we’re nerding out here. When you get higher doses, it’s just not transported across the gut. Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now.