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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The updated tax credit seeks to incentivize physicians to serve in underserved rural communities, addressing longstanding healthcare disparities and bolstering access to medical care for Alabama’s rural residents. What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill.

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Practice organization characteristics are more impactful than intentions in practice scope of early-career family physicians [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Understanding the evolution of physician's practice patterns across a career-span is crucial for workforce projections, policy planning, and shaping medical education. Individual items within the scaled score were also examined. Yet, graduating residents intend broad SOP. The average practicing SOP score was 16.0.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Committees reviewed a range of legislation, including efforts to address workforce shortages, expand insurance coverage and improve school health services. 2413 ( Senator Mann ) creates a new assessment on hospitals to increase Medical Assistance reimbursement rates. HOUSE COMMERCE FINANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE H.F.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities in Senate Omnibus Bill

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES REACHED We came to the end of the legislature’s third deadline last week, which means all bills with a fiscal impact in each committee needed to be voted out and sent to the Finance Committee in the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee in the House. Mandating insurance coverage of vasectomies.

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Though I adhere to commonly agreed upon personal finance advice such as living ‘like a resident’ and well below your means, if you are overly frugal, you will deprive yourself of the enjoyment that is deserved when your income grows. Allowing ourselves to spend our hard-earned money is critical to finding happiness in our careers.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Wiped-out grocery stores, medications unfilled, spoiled food, hours-long lines for gasoline, and impatient citizens pulling firearms on each other, escalating tensions in an already tumultuous time. However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Is there anything to be learned from all of this?

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. 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. This week, we will tackle choosing to rent or buy a home in 2025.

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