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Vermont medical groups press Senate for primary care workforce funding and residency slots
Summary
Physician groups and primary care associations told the Senate Health & Welfare Committee they need targeted budget money to sustain the state’s primary care reforms, preserve community-based “blueprint” services and launch new rural family medicine residency positions.
Primary care physician groups and community health organizations told the Vermont Senate Committee on Health & Welfare on Monday that the state risks losing gains in primary care access unless the Legislature funds workforce and pilot programs now.
The Vermont Medical Society’s executive director, Jessa Barnard, told the committee the state is “on the precipice of losing that progress” in its primary-care reforms and flagged two expiring ACO/All-Payer Model programs and two Blueprint programs that help wrap services around primary care practices. “We know we are currently 115, primary care clinicians short,” Barnard said.
Barnard and other speakers asked the committee to preserve three kinds of funding: (1)…
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