Are Medicaid Patients Seen in Office-Based Practices Getting High-Quality Primary Care?

Commonwealth Fund January 30, 2023
Dong Ding, Sherry A. Glied

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Patients receive the same quality of care whether they visit a primary care practice that sees mostly Medicaid patients or a practice that sees mostly patients with other types of coverage, national data show

Office-based practices that primarily serve Medicaid patients are less likely to have an electronic health record, which could affect their ability to deliver high-quality care in the future

Abstract

• Issue: About three-quarters of nonelderly adult Medicaid patients get their primary care from independent office-based practices, rather than hospital outpatient departments or health centers. But many independent physicians don’t accept Medicaid, in part because of its low payment rates. Medicaid-covered care is concentrated in a small share of independent, typically underresourced practices, and this potentially...

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