Healthcare Innovation August 8, 2024
Across four large U.S. cities, only 18% of the sampled clinicians – all of whom were listed as in-network for Medicaid – were reachable, accepted Medicaid and offered an appointment
A recent study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine published in JAMA found that few psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who are listed as accepting new patients enrolled in Medicaid are actually reachable and have appointments available.
In cases when appointments could be made, wait times sometimes extended up to six months. The research was conducted by first author Diksha Brahmbhatt, M.D. ’24, who is now a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and senior author William Schpero, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of population health sciences.
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