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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

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. HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F. Read a summary of S.F. Read a summary of H.F.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

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. Supporters Say: This will improve care coordination.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers.

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. It shows that you can manage a large debt and make payments regularly without defaulting. This week, we will tackle choosing to rent or buy a home in 2025.

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

GeriPal

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound.

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

GeriPal

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. High-level review of the evidence would tell you that patient and family member, and caregiver experience in hospital-at-home is better than when their loved one is in the hospital. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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