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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

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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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

It is intended to be a continuum of care. And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

But yet the changes we saw, the transitions we saw, but we didn’t transition the care. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. We didn’t respond. That was the middle world.