CMS Wants to Know – Can Medicaid Beneficiaries Find a Doctor?

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is planning to conduct its first nationwide research effort to answer the question of whether adult Medicaid beneficiaries can find providers, and if factors such as being in managed Medicaid versus a fee-for-service offering aid or hurt the search. 

What it’s likely to find, according to interviews conducted with state Medicaid officials and medical society officials in 20 states, is a mixed picture overshadowed by general concerns that reimbursement rates remain too low to entice many doctors to accept new Medicaid patients. Read the article in Modern Healthcare here.
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