California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

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. To fill that gap, California has chosen to use state-only funds to provide certain Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented Californians.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Had she signed up for the government insurance plan when she turned 65, Diamond could have avoided a financially perilous situation that left her unexpectedly responsible for the medical costs she incurred during that time. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees.

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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 1005. Read a summary of HF 958.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Representatives from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. Senior care: Both medical groups are dedicated to improving care for older patients.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

As an experienced physician leader, she is known for always going the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. ” Dr. She has held a variety of leadership positions within the organization dedicated to maintaining and advancing high-quality care that delivers value and superior outcomes for patients. million members.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. On June 9, Kennedy fired a panel of scientific advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and later replaced them with some who have been skeptical of vaccines. Kennedy Jr.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The model, which involves co-governance between Atikamekw and organizational players, is deployed through three pillars of action at clinical, staff and organizational levels. The model, illustrated by the canoe portage metaphor, includes elements symbolizing the three levels, such as the oar, the bark baskets and the canoe frame.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? Who should get it if anyone? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

So when patients led by Abbey Meyer and Marjorie Guthrie (Woody Guthrie’s widow) had championed the 1983 law to create incentives for developing drugs for those with rare conditions, the FDA was excited at this once-in-a-generation new law as this was FDA’s 3ed major drug law in nearly half a century. Abbey Meyers, Marjorie Guthrie, Rep.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. So I called the billing center and had them send me an itemized bill, with a per-test price breakdown. And it’s a true story.

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Pamela Wible MD

JULY 2, 2025

How to protect your medical license, your freedom, and your patients A physician called me just hours before her sentencing for opioid diversion. Here are 11 unforgettable cases involving my friends & family—with hard lessons learned. At $30 per patient, she earned $33,000 over one year before moving on. She declined.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California. There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Mike. I hope I got that right. Mike: You got it right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

staff training in person centered care). The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g. And which journal again? Ken Covinsky: JAMA Network Open. Eric: JAMA Network Open.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Ruth McDermott-Levy, who is Professor in the College of Nursing at Villanova University and Co-Director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment. Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. Ruth, welcome to GeriPal.

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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. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on autism and vaccines. Health and Human Services’ look at rising autism rates in the U.S.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. Here's what Dr. Connolly had to say: "I was pleased and privileged to attend the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit again last month and represent our state.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Why does this issue keep coming up? Why is it unresolved? Today we put these questions to Winston Chiong, a neurologist and bioethicist, and Sean Aas, a philosopher and bioethicist. We’ll have a link to that in our show notes. We’re gonna double up on that subject. Alex 01:07 We haven’t figured it out. Alex 01:48 All right.

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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.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." How can we train more family physicians? growth in the U.S.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.

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Doctors for America

JULY 2, 2025

The new “Marketplace Integrity and Affordability” rule, adopted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), would result in more than 2.2 The policy would disproportionately harm low-income families, communities of color, and patients with chronic or serious medical needs.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

this week fired every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the group of experts who help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make those evidence-based judgments. Anna Edney: KFF Health News’ “ Two Patients Faced Chemo. Kennedy Jr. The post KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’:

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

For more than a decade, a small team of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked to do just that, issuing national guidelines for clinicians on how to prescribe contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions — including heart disease, lupus, sickle cell disease, and obesity.

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