Medicaid: Half of Doctors Won’t Accept New Patients
Merritt-Hawkins, a national health care search and consulting firm, recently released the results of a telephone survey that measures physicians’ ability or willingness to accept new Medicaid patients across five specialties in 15 metropolitan markets.
The survey’s key finding: The average rate of Medicaid acceptance by physicians in all five specialties and in all 15 markets surveyed was only 45.7 percent. This is lower than the acceptance rate found by the same survey in 2009 (55.4 percent) and in 2004 (49.9 percent).
The survey found that, in 2013, Boston had the highest rate of Medicaid acceptance by physicians in the 15 markets surveyed—73 percent—while Dallas had the lowest, a mere 23 percent.
Thank You A.C.A. For saving all of us from high medical bills. Just now we don't have doctors who will see us . So hey at least we are saving money and dying younger in an attempt to not have to pay our Social Security to us and make sure it will always be there to be used for pet projects.
Try to get an appointment with a shrink in Salisbury , good luck.
ReplyDeleteNo new patients .
Thank You
ReplyDeleteA.C.A. For saving all of us from high medical bills. Just now we don't have doctors who will see us . So hey at least we are saving money and dying younger in an attempt to not have to pay our Social Security to us and make sure it will always be there to be used for pet projects.
Who cares, Obama said we can keep our doctors...
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight,
ReplyDeleteThe cities in states that have bought into ACA are at the top of this list, while cities in states that rejected the ACA are at the bottom.
Regardless of what you think about the law, those states are falling behind by doing nothing.