Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 1, 2025

As many of you understand, our Capitol community is like a family and many of us have worked together for years, if not decades. During negotiations, leadership compromised by centering the increase on mental health and did not raise reimbursement rates for outpatient primary care. Tuesday, June 10.

Telehealth 66

Telehealth Mental Health Specialization Primary Care 66

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

American Medical Association Physician Masterfile Population Studied: Cardiologists, neurologists, oncologists, or pulmonologists; rural health systems leaders. Telehealth services are underutilized; incentives for traveling specialists could increase access. Objective: This study sought to analyze changes in the U.S.

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Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access? Some older adults may need access to a structured intensive behavior therapy delivered by a trained primary care clinician.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 6, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Health Equity Committee has identified a need for an Interpreter Access Task Force to help identify gaps and barriers to interpreter access across the state. Resolution 2023-04 : Coverage for live, in-person interpreter services under Minnesota Medical Assistance.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Primary Care Telehealth Community 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

MAFP lobbyist Megan Verdeja shares the latest legislative updates on key health care-related hearings and bills moving through committees.

 HOUSE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Medical Assistance (MA) Rate Reimbursement ( HF 1005 ): Testimony: MAFP President Roli Dwivedi, MD, FAAFP, testified on behalf of the MAFP in support of the bill.

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Patient-Centered Telehealth Management Finance 52

BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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DO Family Medicine Mental Health Family Doctor 40

Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 4, 2023

As a primary care physician, I see many patients who struggle with their relationship with food. The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. If you want to improve your health and are struggling with your relationship with food- we can help!

Relationship 52

Relationship Mental Health Primary Care Physician Diagnose 52

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. That can’t go out for specialty care all the time, like pain management. That’s a big question.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. A Podcast with Caroline Stephens about her publication in JAGS where she studied palliative care-eligibility and POLST completion.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73