Cuts to Medicaid Prompt Some Physicians To Opt Out
Physicians nationwide are declining to accept Medicaid beneficiaries as patients because reimbursement rates generally are significantly lower than average payments from private insurers. As a result, beneficiaries are having a harder time finding doctors in some areas.
- "With Medicaid Cuts, Doctors and Patients Drop Out" (Sack, New York Times, 3/15).