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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, HB 86 proposes the establishment of a Rural Hospital Investment Program in Alabama, which would serve as a conduit for financial support from the public directed towards rural hospitals in the state.

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Educational intervention utilizing population health managers to reduce COPD-related healthcare utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: COPD patient self-management plans, including rescue packs (antibiotic and steroid combinations), are effective in reducing respiratory related emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmissions. Utilization of action plans/rescue packs within our health system remains relatively limited.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

So, I started listening to podcasts and videos about filing flood insurance and homeowners insurance claims. Unfortunately, this led me down a path of unpaid claims, hurricane horror stories, and insurance company fraud. I would then subsequently file a claim with my homeowners and flood insurance.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited.

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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. And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. Is that right? Is that right, Nick?

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

After learning that the insurance company (trying to play doctor) recommends a generic drug that is less effective and has more adverse effects because it does not carry the more expensive drug on its formulary, this gives the doctor cause for concern for their patient.