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2005 SESSION
SJ 317 Holistic health care; jt. subcomm. to study arrangements between physicians, etc.
Introduced by: Henry L. Marsh III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Study; mechanisms to promote collaborative arrangements between primary care physicians and oral health professionals to ensure holistic health care; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study mechanisms to promote collaborative arrangements between primary care physicians and oral health professionals to ensure holistic health care. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) identify and review collaborative arrangements between primary care physicians and oral health professionals, in and out of state; (ii) determine the types of health care services rendered through these collaborative arrangements; (iii) evaluate the need for dental insurance in Virginia, especially such insurance for the working poor and middle-income persons; (iv) identify, to the extent possible, the health problems of Virginians resulting from or related to untreated oral disease; (v) determine which health insurance providers in the Commonwealth offer plans that integrate traditional health insurance and dental insurance plans, and provide coverage for services rendered through collaborative arrangements between primary care physicians and oral health professionals; and (vi) recommend mechanisms to promote collaborative arrangements between primary care physicians and oral health professionals to ensure holistic health care and adequate insurance coverage. The joint subcommittee must submit an executive summary of its findings and recommendations to the 2006 Session of the General Assembly.
This resolution was considered by the Joint Subcommittee Studying Access to and Costs of Oral Health Care.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/05 Senate: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 050944552
- 01/11/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/08/05 Senate: Left in Rules