CVMS Advocacy Proposals for 2025

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The following proposals will be presented on behalf of CVMS at the MSV Annual Meeting in October of 2025:

Proposal #1

Proposal to Improve Access to Care

By Greg Warth, MD on Behalf of the Coastal Virginia Medical Society

Whereas our local communities are suffering due to inadequate access to proper healthcare due to a shortage of healthcare providers, and

Whereas patients and providers do not have the resources necessary for recruitment of adequate numbers for health professionals to resolve this problem, and 

Whereas large local healthcare and health insurance institutions have the resources to be able to recruit providers to the areas where they are needed, 

Be it Resolved that all large healthcare companies and health insurance companies be encouraged to contribute some portion of their annual revenue to attracting and recruiting new providers for the purpose of improving access to healthcare.

Proposal #2

Proposal to Prevent Government Interference in Appropriate Medical Care:

Submitted by Greg Warth, MD and David Archer, MD

On behalf of the Coastal Virginia Medical Society

Whereas the rights of patients and providers are being seriously impaired by government and/or insurance policies in many states across the union, and

Whereas these rights should be held sacred within our healthcare system, and

Whereas government and insurance intervention is causing disruption of the doctor-patient relationships, and interference in appropriate decisions made by patients based on their physician's advice.

Whereas government and insurance intervention is causing harm to appropriate, standardized, evidence-based medical care, and

Whereas government policies have criminalized appropriate medical care in some states.

Be it resolved that government policies in the State of Virginia cannot be used to prevent appropriate and necessary medical care of any individual as determined by the local standard of care and,

Be it further resolved that a provider cannot be criminally charged for providing appropriate and necessary medical care to any individual. 

Proposal #3

Proposal for Prevention of Unnecessary Documentation by Healthcare Providers

By Greg Warth, MD

On Behalf of the Coastal Virginia Medical Society

Whereas the extent of unnecessary documentation required by health professionals is beyond the reasonable ability of them to perform in the course of the average daily workload, and

Whereas the excessive redundant verbiage in progress notes and repeated histories and physical examinations inside most patients’ medical records is unnecessary and is detrimental to searching for more important, more current and more vital information required for the care of that patient at the point of care, and

Whereas this excessive documentation is burdensome to the point of interfering with adequate and appropriate medical care for individual patients, and

Whereas the time required for this excessive documentation results in reduced access to timely care for many patients,

Be it Resolved that excessive, unnecessary and redundant documentation not be required in patients’ medical records, and 

Be it Further Resolved that the compensation charged or received by the provider be determined by the severity of illness, time, skill and/or work required for the patient’s care rather than by the amount of documentation displayed.

Proposal #4

Title: MSV to encourage medical students to join with local medical societies.

By Greg Warth, MD on behalf of the Coastal Virginia Medical Society

 

Whereas medical students are currently encouraged to join a combined membership in the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV) and the American Medical Association (AMA), and

Whereas local medical societies play a significant role in developing proposals and policies for MSV, and

Whereas local medical societies are experiencing waning memberships, and

Whereas medical students would benefit from being members of a local medical society as well as well as state and national organizations in the following ways:

1. Closer attention to what is happening locally in medicine in their part of the state.
2. Greater opportunities to meet and interact with physicians locally where students live. This would improve local friendships and more mentoring opportunities.
3. Local society meetings could help students understand the importance of issues being discussed and how these issues will affect their future as physicians.
4. It will help students get involved at a younger age and help them develop into more knowledgeable physicians and physician-leaders with more interest and education in public health and general healthcare delivery.
5. It would provide them with more opportunities for a social life in the midst of physicians and their families and provide the mental processes needed to avoid burnout.
6. Once a year engagement at a state or national meeting is not enough. Monthly or bimonthly meetings at the local level would provide much more opportunity for the physician-student interaction and mentorship as described above.

Be it resolved that the Medical Society of Virginia include encouragement for medical students to join local medical societies as well as MSV and AMA as an integral part of their training.

 

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