Nearly a Third of Doctors Won’t See New Medicaid Patients
8/9/12,
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In 2011, New Jersey had the nation’s lowest rate at 40 percent. Wyoming had the highest rate, at 99 percent.
from http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22234&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD
8/6/12
About 69 percent of doctors nationally accept new Medicaid patients, but the rate varies widely across the country, according to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs. Access to doctors looms as an important issue in 2014, when under the federal health law, the number of Medicaid patients — now 60 million — will increase by as many as 16 million.
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