States Can Transform Their Health Care Workforce.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-1-2014
Abstract
The United States faces the simultaneous challenges of improving health care access and balancing the specialty and geographic distribution of physicians. A 2014 Institute of Medicine report recommended significant changes in Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding, to incentivize innovation and increase accountability for meeting national physician workforce needs. Annually, nearly $4 billion of Medicaid funds support GME, with limited accountability for outcomes. Directing these funds toward states' greatest health care workforce needs could address health care access and physician maldistribution issues and make the funding for resident education more accountable. Under the proposed approach, states would use Medicaid funds, in conjunction with Medicare GME funds, to expand existing GME programs and establish new primary care and specialty programs that focus on their population's unmet health care needs.
Volume
6
Issue
4
First Page
805
Last Page
808
ISSN
1949-8349
Published In/Presented At
Rockey, P. H., Rieselbach, R. E., Neuhausen, K., Nasca, T. J., Phillips, R. L., Sundwall, D. N., Philibert, I., & Yaghmour, N. A. (2014). States Can Transform Their Health Care Workforce. Journal of graduate medical education, 6(4), 805–808. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-14-00502.1
Disciplines
Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Health and Medical Administration | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
PubMedID
26140143
Department(s)
Administration and Leadership
Document Type
Article