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Half Of Medicaid Providers Unavailable, Report Finds
A significant number of doctors purportedly accepting Medicaid are not actually offering treatment to the program’s beneficiaries, a new investigation finds. More than half of primary care providers and specialists polled were not able to offer appointments to patients on Medicaid, according to a report released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. The reasons that physicians were unavailable to Medicaid beneficiaries — which include many people with disabilities — varied, but in 35 percent of cases investigators found that doctors were not at the locations listed by the program’s provider directory...Read More
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