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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Key proposals included increasing hospital Medicaid reimbursement rates , preventing mid-year changes to prescription drug formularies and establishing a School Health Advisory Committee. The bill passed by a voice vote and was referred to the State and Local Government Committee. HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. 8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. Scholars such as Wen et al.

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Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

Physician's Weekly

That in turn would harm the finances of hospitals, nursing homes, and community health centers — which would have to absorb more of the cost of treating uninsured people — and may force them to reduce services and employees, as well as close facilities. Researchers from the Cecil G.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. And the government can do something about that?!? And they’re often a sign of (or cause of?) worsening prognosis. So let’s put a pin in that.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law

Currently, individual Medicare Part D plan sponsors negotiate rebates but the government is explicitly prohibited from interfering in those negotiations. The attraction of the repeal is that Part D negotiations can potentially save the federal government “hundreds of billions of dollars,” as explained in the Plan.