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185.010 Workforce Shortage Areas Defining Boundaries

185.010

Workforce Shortage Areas Defining Boundaries: States rather than the federal government should define the boundaries of medically underserved and physician workforce shortage areas, and these designations should be based on medical service areas as determined by state and local medical societies (Council on Medical Education, p 89, A-94; reaffirmed CME Rep. 4-A-04; reaffirmed CM-PDHCA Rep. 2-A-14).

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October 07, 2016

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Texas Medicine continues its coverage of COVID-19, looking to what lies ahead for physicians who adopted telemedicine during the pandemic thanks largely to more flexible regulations and payment policies that made the technology transition possible. Those same physicians may continue to rely on telemedicine as they reopen their practices to an influx of patients with neglected health conditions as resources pour into fighting the pandemic and scared patients chose not to come to their doctors’ offices. 

 

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