 The study found that there's an increasing population with limited English proficiency, LEP, in California, and the authors aimed to determine whether enough primary care physicians, PCPs, have the language skills to meet patient needs. They used Medical Board of California data from 2013 to 2015 to determine the number of PCPs who self-report proficiency in the five most common non-English languages spoken in California and estimated LEP populations during 2011 to 2015 using census data. The authors calculated PCP supply, the ratio of PCPs slash 100 000 LEP individuals, compared to a federal standard to judge adequacy. They performed a sensitivity analysis adjusting the percentage of LEP patients in a bilingual physician's practice from 100% to the percentage of LEP individuals in California who spoke that language. The results showed that PCP supply was adequate if we assumed that bilingual PCPs only care for LEP patients, but there's a large PCP undersupply for all languages if one assumes the number of LEP patients in a PCPs practice reflects the percentage in the general population. The conclusion is that ensuring language concordant access will require deliberate effort to match LEP patients with bilingual PCPs. This article was authored by Maria E. Garcia, Andrew B. Bindman and Janet Kaufman. We are article.tv, links in the description below.