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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. The asset limit for a household would be $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 per couple.

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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. Looking for a tailored approach? The use of medications in U.S.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

FDA Law Blog

The Court found that there is at best little utility in interpreting the AKS by reference to the BIS. As Pfizer has argued throughout this legal battle, its proposed copay assistance program “poses no risk of corrupting independent decision making” or of inducing improper utilization of tafamidis. Pfizer’s Petition to SCOTUS.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. And then putting that on steroids with AI.

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Pharmacists in Florida (and Elsewhere): Waive Prescribing Red Flags at Your Peril

FDA Law Blog

The Government alleged that Coconut Grove violated numerous federal and state controlled substance laws. Factor B was the pharmacy’s experience with dispensing or conducting research with respect to controlled substances while Factor D was compliance with applicable state, federal, or local laws relating to controlled substances.

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Price Limits, Affordability Boards, Penalties, Oh My: Minnesota Enacts Sweeping Drug Pricing Reforms

FDA Law Blog

The statute confuses the issue by providing that “every individual transaction in violation of [the excessive price increase prohibition] is considered a separate violation,” making it unclear whether this is a per-day or per-transaction penalty, and, if the latter, what the transaction is.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

What should we use to screen individuals? So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. I don’t have access to change the levers of government. Who should get it if anyone?

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