Moderately or Very Important Reasons for Not Accepting New Medicaid Patients, 2004-05 |
|
Billing Requirements/ Paperwork
|
Delayed Reimbursement
|
Inadequate Reimbursement
|
Practice is Full
|
High Clinical Burden of Medicaid Patients
|
|
| All Physicians |
70.4%
|
64.8%
|
84.0%
|
43.5%
|
51.5%
|
| Practice Type | |||||
| Solo/2 Physicians |
73.9
|
65.7
|
85.3
|
43.2
|
52.9
|
| Small Group |
78.5*
|
72.2
|
88.1
|
47.6
|
54.3
|
| Medium Group, Large Group and Group/Staff HMO |
56.5*
|
62.0
|
86.1
|
41.8
|
48.4
|
| Institutional Provider1 |
41.3*
|
54.0*
|
65.9*
|
43.5
|
41.2
|
| Other |
63.5
|
45.2*
|
72.9*
|
32.9
|
44.0
|
|
Notes: Includes only physicians not accepting new Medicaid patients. Multiple reasons were allowed. * Difference with all physicians is statistically significant at p <.05. 1 Includes hospitals, academic medical centers, community health centers
and other free clinics. |
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