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"Nope the next step is to make compulsory the participation and acceptance of all Medicaid patients as a requirement for retaining state licensure"

Exactly. There are precious few doctors right now that take new Medicaid patients. And none that I know that take it exclusively.

They simply CAN'T.

It's literally a money LOSING proposition.

You can't pay the bills when your services are paid pennies on the dollar for what they are worth.

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"Nope the next step is to make compulsory the participation and acceptance of all Medicaid patients as a requirement for retaining state licensure"

But they CAN move their office practices to locations where Medicaid patients will find it difficult to travel. There is more than one way to skin a gov't bureaucrat -- and the health professions have been out-thinking the gov't bureaucrats for decades now.

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There are precious few doctors right now that take new Medicaid patients.”

UBH, the mental health part of UHC, negotiated a contract with the State of Texas that pays mental health providers a whole lot more than the same procedures pay for standard medicaid. Providers who accept these patients make out like a bandit. Has to cost the state of Texas a LOT of money, particularly since we’re full to the gills with illegal Mexicans who have this type of Medicaid coverage.