Specialists less Likely to Provide Care to Medicaid Managed Care Patients

http://hbns.org/newsrelease/medicaid12-04-01.cfm

Specialists are just as likely to treat Medicaid patients as are primary care physicians, according to the results of a recent study conducted in California. They are, however, less likely to accept Medicaid patients who are enrolled in managed care plans

The survey, published in the December issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, also found that specialists have fewer numbers of Medicaid patients in their practices than do primary care doctors and that most doctors hold negative views of Medicaid patients