Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

MAFP Legislative Priorities in Action The following pieces of legislation, currently under consideration, align with the MAFP’s legislative priorities of reducing administrative burdens, investing in primary care and improving health care access. HF 981 : Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated (author: Rep.

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Doctor On Demand

MARCH 31, 2023

Mental health is an essential part of our overall health and wellbeing. The daily stress and anxiety we face in our lives play a major role in our physical health. While others may face more acute mental health concerns, including PTSD, bipolar disorder, or treatment-resistant depression.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We'll also touch on women’s health , mental health , and how to get the most out of your visit. Urgent Care for Mental Health: Immediate Help When You Need It Mental health is just as important as physical health, and urgent care centers are increasingly recognizing this. What is Urgent Care?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care is a main source for behavioral or mental health care provision in adults. Data suggests primary care settings may be an important place for mental health interventions, specifically for assessing and treating suicidal ideation (SI). 033) while issues with health care cost (β =.149,

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

It will break language barriers These M-LLMs will easily facilitate communication between healthcare providers and patients who speak different languages, translating between various languages in real time. Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Unlike traditional insurance-based models, DPC eliminates the need for copays, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs. Key features of DPC include: Unlimited access to a primary care physician: Patients can see their doctor as often as needed, without worrying about insurance limitations. Why Choose Plum Health DPC?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, health leaders have cautioned about expanding telehealth into maternal-fetal medicine. This concern is in part due to the risk of replacing in-person visits, which are beneficial for building rapport in the mother-infant-provider relationship. Further, lower insurance reimbursement rates can limit its clinical use.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I can tell you first-hand that this has allowed me to develop more trusting relationships with my patients, more time to identify and manage mental health concerns, and learn more about how a person’s lifestyle influences their health. A third barrier is that insurance companies often do not pay for nutrition counseling.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. More than 30% of U.S. In 2022, only 24.4%

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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 was passed by a voice vote and was sent to the Tax Committee. Read a summary of S.F.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE Health Care Reinsurance ( HF 837 ): Supporters Say: Reinsurance is needed to keep premiums down. State health insurers already contribute to reinsurance through taxes and assessments that go into the general fund, the proposed source for the program. Read a summary of HF 958.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. Primary care is your go-to for all things health-related.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding how to prepare for this important appointment ensures you receive maximum benefit from your healthcare provider’s expertise. The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. .” Some blood tests require fasting for accurate results.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life. Your primary care provider (PCP) is the one who helps you implement a preventive strategy and adjust it as your needs evolve.

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The Physicians Foundation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Burnout is leading to challenges and tragic outcomes affecting mental health with many still afraid of seeking help. While residents and medical students are more likely to personally know a peer impacted by suicide, they are also more likely to have had a conversation about seeking mental health support.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. It was really, really impressive to me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. People experiencing homelessness, as I mentioned before, have a lot of trauma, mental health issues, substance use disorders.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Janet: So as Julie Childers often says in the same way that as palliative care clinicians we can take a first pass to address distress from depression without being necessarily mental health counseling specialists or a psychiatrist.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. I think- Eric: I was going to say that.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

From a public health standpoint, the 72-hour waiting period was a big win, since the biggest risk from gun possession is from suicide. Providers of abortion and gender affirming care in Maine are effectively shielded from laws in other states by the passage of protection by the legislature. LD 227 was signed by Governor Mills.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Yeah.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, making cardiovascular preventive care especially important. Implementing Preventive Care in Your Life Understanding examples of preventive care is only valuable if you actually implement these practices.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

The firings that began in February are taking a significant toll on federal employees’ mental health. His friends set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding page to provide a financial cushion for him, his wife, and their four children. And the nation’s mental health system is already underfunded, understaffed, and overstretched.

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