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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. Mid-Year Formulary Changes – Limiting the ability of insurers to make coverage changes mid-year. Lawmakers must pass a full budget before June 30 to avoid a government shutdown.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Eric: You got this depot in the high layer, so absorption is really governed by the microcirculation to that stratum corneum and skin… Alex: We’re going deep here – Eric said “stratum corneum. Remember, there’s an active transport metabolism for gabapentin, if we’re nerding out here. Janet: Yeah.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. But, what you need is a community-based game there. You go back home.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included.

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Federal Proposals Threaten Provider Taxes, Key Source of Medicaid Funding for States

Physician's Weekly

All states except Alaska have at least one provider tax on managed care plans, hospitals, nursing homes, emergency ground transportation, or other types of health care businesses. And the Republicans who run the federal government are looking to spend far fewer of those dollars.