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Physician workforce panel refocuses on actionable recommendations amid looming Medicaid cuts
Summary
Members of the state physician workforce working group voted to shift their meeting schedule and agreed to retool their process to produce ‘actionable’ recommendations, while several speakers warned that pending federal Medicaid cuts and state budget constraints will limit what lawmakers can fund.
Physician workforce working group members agreed to shift their regular meeting date and to redesign their process to produce recommendations that can realistically be implemented, while warning that looming federal Medicaid funding cuts could sharply constrain options.
The group, convened to carry out PA 19-related work on physician supply and practice environment, voted to move its regular meeting from the second to the third Tuesday of each month and discussed a tighter timeline and a new meeting format that pairs a presenter (internal or external) with a member who would lead the reaction and discussion.
The change in approach was framed by Krishna Narasimhan, chairing the session and identified as a family medicine physician and chair of the department of family medicine at Stanford Health, who said the group needs “to reverse…
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