- Paid more, doctors saw more Medicaid patients, Penn study finds, By Don Sapatkin, January 21, 2015, Philadelphia Inquirer: “For two years, the Obama administration dramatically raised Medicaid reimbursements for primary-care physicians in the hope that they would see more poor patients. The idea was that states would jump in to continue at least part of the payments. Few did, and the experiment ended Dec. 31, before researchers could report evidence of an impact. Now they have…”
- Doctors took on more Medicaid patients when Obamacare boosted their pay, By Tim Darragh, January 22, 2015, NJ.com: “Doctors were much more willing to take on poor and low-income patients when the federal government temporarily boosted Medicaid payments, according to the study published Wednesday. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests the two-year increase in Medicaid reimbursements as scheduled in the Affordable Care Act helped bring health care to more of the poor and low-income people who are enrolled in the program. But the findings leave some concern the access to care problems those enrollees had before the program began will resume again, since New Jersey is among 35 states that let it expire on Dec. 31…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty