Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
APRIL 22, 2025
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. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities.
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
MARCH 13, 2025
SENATE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Patient-Centered Care Program ( SF 1059 ): Proposal: The bill proposes removing managed care from MA by having the Department of Human Services (DHS) make direct payments to providers. Status: It passed with bipartisan support and was referred to the Senate Finance Committee.
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GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
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. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
It improves symptom management. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth. Of intensively hand feeding? Ruth: It’s not incredibly expensive. It’s not nearly as expensive as a feeding tube, but it improves quality of life.
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