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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. Read a summary of S.F. Read a summary of H.F.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

For instance, the UK government’s initiative to install solar panels on National Health Service sites is projected to save each site up to £45,000 annually, amounting to approximately £13 million in total savings per year. hospital upwards of $240,000 over 5 years. hospital could save $240,000 per year.” 3 “Each U.S.

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Baby Formula Shortages

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Purchase from well-recognized distributors, grocers, and pharmacies rather than individually sold or auction sites. Watering down formula to stretch it out can cause nutritional imbalances in your baby and lead to serious health problems that require hospitalization. Always mix formula as directed by the manufacturer.

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The Incredible Shrinking Exemption: FDA Final CDS Guidance Would Significantly Narrow the Scope of Exempt Clinical Decision Support Software Under the Cures Act

FDA Law

The final guidance therefore may have significant implications for a wide range of stakeholders, including not only software developers but also health care providers, hospitals, patients and payors. Interpretation of Statutory Criteria Under the Final Guidance. The final guidance focuses on labeling as a means to effectuate Criterion 4.

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Does the Drug Shortage White Paper Fall Short?

FDA Law

For generic drug manufacturing facilities specifically, the numbers are 63% and 87%. MRAP would provide oversight of an accreditation body which would conduct assessments—paid for by the manufacturer—based on criteria developed by the MRAP. HHS would then use MRAP scores in the proposed Hospital Resilient Supply Program (HRSP).

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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New Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Expanding Opportunities for Medical Product Innovations

FDA Law

The new guidance also presents an opportunity for device manufacturers working for patient populations affected by rare life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions, such as sickle cell disease.

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