Posted on 12/09/2014 12:53:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Large numbers of doctors who are listed as serving Medicaid patients are not available to treat them, federal investigators said in a new report.
“Half of providers could not offer appointments to enrollees,” the investigators said in the report, which will be issued on Tuesday.
Many of the doctors were not accepting new Medicaid patients or could not be found at their last known addresses, according to the report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The study raises questions about access to care for people gaining Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
More than one-third of providers could not be found at the location listed by a Medicaid managed-care plan.
About 8 percent of providers were at the locations listed, but said they did not participate in the Medicaid health plan with which they were supposedly affiliated. Another 8 percent participated in Medicaid, but were not accepting new patients.
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When it costs a doc $65 to see a patient and he only gets reimbursed $42 by medicaid.....
How does that math work for ANYONE?
Oh... they understand it just fine. They are just too stupid to realize that their pie-in-the-sky dreams can’t change reality.
You are correct. Licensure in the future will imply taking medicare/medicaid, OR ELSE!
He (or, as is more likely in 2014, she) closes the door, and goes fishing. Or spends time with the kids. Or, really, practically anything.
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