Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Since she was still working, she thought her employer health insurance plan would cover her. This time, though, the insurance coverage wasn’t routine. Diamond contacted several people at UnitedHealthcare before she found out why the insurer refused to pay her claims. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

Key health policy updates from March 3, 2025: MAFP lobbyist Megan Verdeja shares the latest legislative news on health care-related bills impacting family physicians and health care access. This bill received bipartisan support and was passed to the Senate State and Local Government Committee. Read the Scope Questionnaire for SF 509.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

An immigrant without legal status, Maria doesn’t have health or dental insurance. Maria is among what the federal government estimates are 2.6 Just over half of public health insurance recipients in California are Latino, compared with just 30% of Medicaid enrollees nationwide. That’s more than she can afford.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. The bill passed by a voice vote and was referred to the State and Local Government Committee.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. The percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care dipped to new lows of 30% and 24.3% in 2022, respectively, compared with 34% and 29.7% More than 30% of U.S.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Last week, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) was actively engaged in multiple discussions on health care policy, including Medical Assistance rate reimbursement, coverage for the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model and broader reforms to patient-centered care. Read a summary of HF 958.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. The new studies are coming at a fraught political moment. The nation’s health secretary, Robert F.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. Diagnostic delays, racial and ethnic health disparities, insurance barriers, and restricted access to appropriate treatments compound the emotional and physical burden of living with IBD.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Officials at CMS say they are looking into whether they can block federal Medicaid or insurance funding to hospitals that offer such care. The federal government has already cut off hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S. The hospital said more than 65% of its funding comes from federal sources. In April, U.S.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel. By the way.

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The Health Policy Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2020

President in November support a "Medicare for All" style single-payer health insurance program, this issue emerged during the Democratic primary debates as one option for extending coverage to the uninsured and reducing health care administrative costs. He pointed out that 93% of U.S. trillion annually.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Policies and products that support pediatricians in providing confidential and timely contraceptive care to adolescents should be designed by governments, insurers, electronic health care vendors, and health care systems. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Part of it’s what Mike was saying, it’s accountability as a country, as a nation and as the government. This is a problem that’s existed for decades. What are they accountable for?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I would say the drugs didn’t change as much as all the stuff about sexuality and about family dynamics and spirituality: all the things that I’m hoping people will get from this book. It’s hard to explain that to the family. Let the family know. The morphine family, there’s some pretty good data.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. Eric: Now, insurance companies are going to want handwritten prior authorizations. ” Alex: Wow.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Lastly, great attention and effort was given to the banning of flavored tobacco products.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Insurance companies. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. And I think maybe we could list them all. Healthcare provide.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 27, 2025

Notwithstanding, there are some specific responsibilities that belong to the federal government, others that belong to the states, and still others that are shared between them. More people without insurance coverage means higher overall costs. And sometimes people and programs fall through the cracks.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Other experts told PolitiFact that the actual numbers could be higher than what the federal government reports, although not as high as Paragon’s estimate. It is funded through a mix of federal and state money and is administered by states under federal government rules. How High Is the Medicaid Improper Payment Rate?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Nearly seven months after the fatal shooting of an insurance CEO in New York drew widespread attention to health insurers’ practice of denying or delaying doctor-ordered care, the largest U.S. insurers agreed Monday to streamline their often cumbersome preapproval system.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The federal government spends billions of dollars a year matching these taxes, which generally lead to more money for providers, helping them balance lower Medicaid reimbursement rates while allowing states to protect against economic downturns and budget constraints. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

So began the stress of trying to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in treatment — without health insurance. Making sure he had insurance was the last thing on his mind, until recently, Fry said. To save money, Fry said, he’s taking a less aggressive treatment route than his doctor recommended.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

States that run their own Obamacare marketplaces and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners have also raised concerns about added costs and reduced access. More than 90% of ACA enrollees receive tax credits to defray monthly premiums for their coverage. There are two key provisions for them to watch. Having a Baby?

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

Elon Musk — who is the world’s richest person and whose Department of Government Efficiency, created by a Trump executive order, is infiltrating federal agencies and spearheading mass firings — has claimed without evidence that “there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.”

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