CVMS Advocacy Proposals for 2025
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 #4
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.
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