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Dec 18, 2025, 10:32 AM
After a 135-day budget stalemate, Pennsylvania lawmakers and Governor Josh Shapiro struck a bipartisan deal on a $50.09 billion spending plan for FY 2025-26.
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Dec 18, 2025, 09:08 AM
The Trump administration recently issued an Executive Order (EO) addressing state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws.
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Dec 17, 2025, 13:37 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today adopted individual-based decision-making for hepatitis B immunization for parents deciding whether to give the hepatitis B vaccine, including the birth dose, to infants born to women who test negative for the virus.
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Oct 7, 2025, 08:39 AM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and now recommends toddlers receive the varicella vaccine as a standalone immunization.
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Oct 1, 2025, 15:36 PM
The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) strongly supports vaccines and other evidence-based practices that protect public health and prevent disease.
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Sep 2, 2025, 08:08 AM
As many know, the telehealth flexibilities were extended through September 30, 2025, due to a continuing resolution.
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Jun 25, 2025, 12:03 PM
Effective July 1, 2025, AmeriTrust Group, Inc., an affiliate brand of AF Group, will no longer directly service Pennsylvania Medical Society members. To better support the association members, we have appointed World Insurance Associates LLC as the exclusive agent for brokerage services -- AmeriTrust will remain the insurance carrier.
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Jun 19, 2025, 13:36 PM
Delegation Chair and Vice Chair, Jill Owens, MD and John Vasudevan, MD, led twenty-eight members of the Pennsylvania Delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) at the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates (HOD or the House) in Chicago from June 6 – 11, 2025.
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Apr 30, 2025, 14:04 PM
On Sept 29, 2022, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an unfavorable ruling in a medical malpractice case in which PAMED had filed an amicus brief.
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Apr 10, 2025, 10:46 AM
Earlier this week, PAMED and the AMA filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of the effort of the Pennsylvania Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) to have the Supreme Court review its case against Governor Shapiro and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Apr 1, 2025, 14:04 PM
FDA Grants Marketing Authorization of First Home Test for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Trichomoniasis
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Apr 1, 2025, 10:00 AM
Find out what to do with medical records when a physician retires or passes away.
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Mar 20, 2025, 11:34 AM
With the signing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024, these Medicare telehealth waivers were extended through March 31, 2025. (CMS, 2025.
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Mar 6, 2025, 08:23 AM
Yet another change concerning the new federal Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirements has been announced.
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Feb 24, 2025, 14:59 PM
PAMED is deeply saddened by the tragic act of violence that occurred at the UPMC Memorial Hospital this weekend.
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