Colorado Medical Society

Introduced by: Thomas J. Allen, MD

Subject: Primary Care

Referred to: Reference Committee on Health Affairs

WHEREAS, primary care physicians are generally experiencing problems with the financial viability of primary care practice, and

WHEREAS, primary care residencies are experiencing increasing problems with filling their training programs with qualified medical school graduates, and

WHEREAS, there is now forecast to be a shortage of many specialty physicians by the year 2020, and especially a shortage of primary care physicians, and

WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the Colorado Medical Society and the citizens of Colorado to strengthen the viability of primary care practice, therefore be it

FISCAL IMPACT: None

RESOLVED, that the Colorado Medical Society support any and all appropriate efforts to reduce the demands on primary care physicians for uncompensated services such as school notes, work absentee excuses, authorizations for studies or referrals, non-formulary prescriptions and other such work, and seek to make the provision of all these services identifiable under the CPT coding system and compensable.