One bill would require physicians to undergo two years, not one year, of training after medical school to qualify for a regular medical license in Wisconsin. The state currently requires one year of post-graduate training for both U.S. medical school students and graduates of foreign medical schools, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
Under the bill, graduates of U.S. medical schools would have to complete two years of training, or complete one year and be enrolled in a program in which the director says the doctor is expected to complete the second year. Graduates of foreign medical schools would have to complete two years of training, and the most recent year would have to be in a single program.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Erik Severson (R-Star Prairie), and Sen. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa).
A separate bill would put tighter caps on how much physicians and physical therapists could be paid to treat injured patients covered by worker’s compensation insurance, according to a Journal Sentinel report.
The bill, led by sponsors Rep. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown) and Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend), would leave workers with their choice of providers but make several changes to the system.
For instance, it would require the state Department of Workforce Development to create lists of maximum prices that healthcare providers could receive for doing a particular procedure for an injured worker. The agency would have to create a separate list of maximum charges for five separate regions of the state to account for differing geographic markets in Wisconsin, according to the report.
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