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WASHINGTON - Many people who rely on government health insurance for the poor have to search harder to find a doctor and increasingly are going to large practices, a study shows.
Officials say Medicaid's reimbursement rate is the biggest reason that it is getting more difficult to locate doctors who take new patients under the program. On average, reimbursements are 69 percent of what Medicare pays and even lower compared with what private insurers pay.See the full content of this document
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Fewer Doctors Taking On New Medicaid Patients
Doctors frequently complain about the administrative hassles. For example, physicians ofte...
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