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- CAP Presents Health Equity Update at CDC Lab Partners Meeting
On September 25, at the Clinical Laboratory Partners Forum convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the CAP presented an update on the pathologists’ role in advancing health equity through diagnostic medicine. The update highlighted how the CAP has developed and adopted multiple policies stemming from the work of the Health Equity and Disparities Workgroup including Medicaid expansion, recognizing, and addressing the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) as an essential part of combating health care disparities and inequities among patients and addressing barriers to entry for underrepresented diverse populations in clinical trials.
The CAP’s legislative wins were also cited. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 signed into law at the end of 2022 included several of the CAP’s health equity and disparities priorities like diversity in clinical trials and physician workforce shortages that impede access to care.
Lastly, the CAP presented the health equity page on the CAP website and how the CAP convened a health equity webinar with CAP President Emily Volk, MD, FCAP, Board of Governor Kalisha Hill, MD, MBA, FCAP and Kisha Mitchell Richards, MD, FCAP, to discuss the importance of health equity initiatives in pathology and highlighted the CAP policy efforts in the health equity space.