Doctors and Medicaid Patients – New Jersey

N.J. doctors least likely to accept new Medicaid patients, survey says, By Susan K. Livio, August 18, 2013, Star-Ledger: “Beginning in January, the Affordable Care Act is expected to open the door to 300,000 low-income New Jerseyans to get health coverage through Medicaid, but a recent survey found the majority of Garden State doctors won’t be willing to treat them. Fifty-four percent of primary care doctors and 56.5 percent of specialists in New Jersey said they did not plan to accept any new Medicaid patients in the coming year — more than any other state, according to a July report in the monthly publication Health Affairs…”