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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. PBMs must also submit detailed drug pricing data to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).

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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up. Study Design: A qualitative multiple-case study design.

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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

HTA organizations are generally funded by governments, they guide health care professionals and decision/policy-makers, and they publish knowledge translation products such as guidelines. Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Health organization outcomes.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

The Scorecard was developed in response to a call for an annual tracking tool to inform primary care policy issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in their 2021 report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. For more information, visit www.milbank.org.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. I’m a family physician by training. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. Couldn’t imagine doing anything else.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

Wade guaranteed was not just the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy, but the right of a patient and their physician to consider these four pillars privately and come to a decision together without government interference.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Interest currently accumulates during that time, adding to the crushing debt, and discouraging new grads from pursuing careers in lower paying specialties such as family medicine. This bill would preclude the government from charging interest on their loans during when they are unable to afford payments on the principal.