Medicaid Growth Could Aggravate Doctor Shortage – NY Times California is expecting to add as many as two million people to its Medicaid rolls over the next two years — far more than any other state. They will be joining more than seven million people who are already in the program here. One million of the newly eligible will probably be enrolled by July 2014, said Mari Cantwell, an official with the state’s Department of Health Care Services. On top of that, only about 57 percent of doctors in California accept new Medicaid patients, according to a study published last year in the journal Health Affairs — the second-lowest rate in the nation after New Jersey. Payment rates for Medicaid, known in California as Medi-Cal, are also low here compared with most states, and are being cut by an additional 10 percent in some cases just as the expansion begins. Read the full article here: nytimes/2013/11/29/us/lack-of-doctors-may-worsen-as-millions-join-medicaid-rolls.html?_r=0
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:33:15 +0000
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