HCP Live August 5, 2024
In a “secret shopper” study, investigators posing as Medicaid enrollees found many clinicians in Medicaid provider directories do not accept Medicaid insurance.
A recent study revealed Medicaid enrollees struggle to receive psychiatric care.1 The largest Medicaid-managed care plans across 4 US cities only had 17.8% of psychiatrists or mental health professionals listed as in-network for Medicaid who were reachable, accepted Medicaid, and could provide a new patient appointment.
“We’ve long known that relatively few psychiatrists participate in the Medicaid program, which compromises access to necessary care,” said senior author William Schpero, PhD, assistant professor of population health studies at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-associate director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, in a press release.2 “This is compounded by...
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