Year: 2011
Resolution Number: 82
Action Taken: Disapproved
Status:
Author(s): Kenneth A. Fisher, MD
Sponsor: Raghu Elluru, MD
On behalf of: Kalamazoo County Delegation
Committee: A (Medical Care Delivery)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS encourage internal medicine and pediatric sub-specialists to assume primary care responsibility for their patients with sub-specialty complex problems who do not have a primary care relationship with such care supervised by the sub-specialist, but performed by ancillary personnel who would require adequate compensation, with the goal of increasing primary care activity for the population, greatly alleviate the primary care shortage, and provide better and more efficient care for the seriously chronically ill; a population that consumes a disproportionate percentage of our health care dollars.RATIONALE: The Committee agreed with testimony in opposition to this resolution that it does not appropriately address the underlying problems affecting the primary care work force.
RESOLVED: That MSMS encourage internal medicine and pediatric sub-specialists to assume primary care responsibility for their patients with sub-specialty complex problems who do not have a primary care relationship with such care supervised by the sub-specialist, but performed by ancillary personnel who would require adequate compensation, with the goal of increasing primary care activity for the population, greatly alleviate the primary care shortage, and provide better and more efficient care for the seriously chronically ill; a population that consumes a disproportionate percentage of our health care dollars.RATIONALE: The Committee agreed with testimony in opposition to this resolution that it does not appropriately address the underlying problems affecting the primary care work force.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Increase Primary Care Access Through Coordination of Care