California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

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. To fill that gap, California has chosen to use state-only funds to provide certain Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented Californians.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 16, 2025

That’s when the health system turned to a company that provides a turnkey SNF-care program. A struggle for enough staffing When the federal government launched the readmission penalty program in 2013, staff with OSF HealthCare knew their readmission rates fueled by bouncebacks from SNFs were running between 18% and 25%.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. Had she signed up for the government insurance plan when she turned 65, Diamond could have avoided a financially perilous situation that left her unexpectedly responsible for the medical costs she incurred during that time.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These included people with lived/living experience of drug use, clinicians, researchers, government health department staff, and individuals from non-government organizations focusing on drug use. specialists, social workers), thus providing care continuity. specialists, social workers), thus providing care continuity.

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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. Read a summary of HF 1005. Status: It was laid over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

About Permanente Medical Groups Permanente Medical Groups are self-governed, physician-led, prepaid, multispecialty medical groups composed of more than 25,000 physicians. The pursuit of value-based care has long been a clarion call for strengthening the American health care system. PT / 11:30 a.m. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. TPMG comprises nearly 10,000 physicians in 116 specialties, providing care for 4.6 million members in California.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ).

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. Government. It is also episode 4 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. Along with tracking the health of primary care, the Scorecard provides progress updates on the NASEM report’s policy recommendations for federal and state governments, health care organizations, and payers.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Meanwhile, Annex 2, which provides guidance on pragmatic and decentralized clinical trials as well as trials incorporating real-world data, is expected to be finalized by ICH later in 2025. The guideline expands its focus on data governance and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of sponsors, investigators, and service providers.

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

Heather Massey, Sustainability Programs Manager hmassey@mygreendoctor.org (469) 877-4608 Make the Pledge Today! If doctors, nurses, and practice managers highlight the connection between environmental factors and patient well-being, people listen—and they take action. Contact us today! The healthcare sector contributes 8.5%

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

There she led more than 600 physicians providing care for 275,000 members in various facilities including a Kaiser Permanente hospital, a contracted hospital, and 14 medical office buildings in Woodland Hills and West Ventura. million members. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

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. The breadth of services provided by modern day medicine is profound.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 27, 2025

As we move into the tenth week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol and provides an update on health care bills. The bill passed by a voice vote and was referred to the State and Local Government Committee.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. By Kalie E.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2025

For nearly two decades, Dr. Lowy provided leadership across a range of important therapeutic areas, including general endocrinology, pain/opioids, cardiology, neurology, and psychiatry. We look forward to her development and future success here, said HPM Managing Director J.P. Ellison.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — In January 2023, FDA published a paper summarizing its lessons learned from two pilot Quality Management Maturity (QMM) Pilot Programs, such as best practices for conducting QMM assessments and developing the QMM scoring system. By Holly N.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Dave, MD, MPH , inquired how stressors may contribute to candidates failing the certification examination and Dr. McDonald stated that knowledge gaps were the primary cause, though ABIM provides safeguards to reduce stress like grace periods and consideration of compassionate exemptions for extraordinary life circumstances.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Maintaining complete and accurate records with direct, ongoing oversight by management reduces risk of internal employee pilferage and maximizes potential for early detection should diversion occur. Part 1 provides background and explains the scope of DEA cyclic and on-site inspections. 17, 2020.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” “Whether you’re the call center agent, the receptionist, [or] the lab tech, you participate and you provide the input into innovation,” said Dr. Nguyen. The Southern California Permanente Medical Group is one of the largest medical groups in the nation with more than 8,800 physicians providing care for over 4.8

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Realtor, a former quality assurance plant manager at the Grifols Los Angeles facility, alleged there were discrepancies in the Clean In Place (CIP) equipment qualification. These CIP equipment qualification reports were provided to the FDA in support of its PAS and PAI to approve the new facility.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. Are there, though, populations that it may be helpful in, or should that change with the advent of the new amyloid antibodies? Should it?

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Claud The ongoing DOGE-led reductions to the federal workforce and recent sweeping policy changes have spawned many questions for compliance officers and quality managers in FDA-regulated companies. And, frankly, it is a useful tool to manage potential whistleblowers by addressing concerns before they mushroom. By John W.M.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Maintaining complete and accurate records with direct, ongoing oversight by management reduces risk of internal employee pilferage and maximizes potential for early detection should diversion occur. Part 1 provides background and explains the scope of DEA cyclic and on-site inspections. 17, 2020.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Inconsistency in care delivery So as every provider shapes her practice around MyChart, each will do it in a slightly different way. But this may not be consistently applied by other providers in the same group. A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Manufacturers should develop the Modification Protocol consistent with their quality system and should follow their risk management processes. FDA expects four elements to be included in a Modification Protocol: Data management practices, Re-training practices, Performance evaluation protocols, and Update procedures.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2024

On March 1, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received the draft final LDT rule for review ( here ). It remains to be seen whether FDA’s hasty finalization of the rule will provide fodder for APA challenges for failing to adequately address substantive comments. That hasn’t happened yet. See our prior post here.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The joint press release counters that “this is not the answer,” and alleges that “establishing a duplicative system for the oversight of tests by expanding CLIA would create more government bureaucracy and inconsistencies.” That CMS teamed up with its sister agency to support FDA’s proposed rule is itself unusual.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

As previous research has found, providing factual information helps tremendously in addressing misconceptions and myths about infectious diseases, the latter of which can seriously undermine implementation of preventive measures. Scholars such as Wen et al. National involvement is also needed to facilitate these efforts.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Her expertise includes preparation and maintenance of licensing documentation, communications with state boards and government agencies, conducting research, and the preparation of associated licensing documentation and applications. Keup has joined the firm to assist attorneys Karla L. Palmer , Larry K. Houck , and Kalie E.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Lax Controls Provided Employees with Opportunity to Divert. In short, the employees were provided the opportunity to not only commit the crimes but that they went undetected.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

Complaint ¶ 38.) While injunctive enforcement tools have been statutorily available for years, they were first successfully dusted off in 2019 to assist the government in its efforts to stem the tide of inappropriate dispensing in the wake of the country’s opioid crisis (blogged about here ). 21 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Our firm has a great deal of experience in pleading with the Government not to prosecute clients that have discovered serious misconduct by employees (including management) and disclosed it to the Government voluntarily. Of course, the traditional corporate enforcement chart-toppers were all there for the DAG.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The excellent work of these and other professionals at HPM is why we’ve maintained a high level of client service for 43 years,” said JP Ellison, HPM’s managing director. Our knowledge of the laws and regulations governing drugs, medical devices, foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics is unparalleled in breadth and depth.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

3], it was found that the resident doctors have to do multiple works simultaneously during their shifts and there had been multiple interruptions while doing each task which could result in errors in patient management. Jishnu Janardhanan (Resident Doctor) In a study done by Patricia et al. [3],

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2024

This unique forum, designed for in-house counsel and executives, as well as private practice attorneys working for the OTC drug industry will provide invaluable insights on FDA’s most recent directives and compliance standards governing OTC drug production, marketing and distribution.

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