Physicians and Medicare, JAMA, February 25, 2014
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Visualizing Health Policy: Physicians and Medicare
OtherThis infographic illustrates information about Medicare’s payment formula for physicians and about access to health care for people covered by Medicare.
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Medicare Patients’ Access to Physicians: A Synthesis of the Evidence
Issue BriefCongressional debates about the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) raise questions about whether doctors are willing to see Medicare patients. This issue brief examines multiple data sources to assess beneficiaries’ access to physicians, particularly vulnerable beneficiaries with greater health needs and other disadvantages. It examines the share of doctors who are participating physicians as well as those who have opted-out of the Medicare program to privately contract with Medicare patients. It includes State analyses of rates of physicians who are accepting new Medicare patients as well as patients with private health insurance and Medicaid.
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How Much Will Medicaid Physician Fees for Primary Care Rise in 2013? Evidence from a 2012 Survey of Medicaid Physician Fees
Issue BriefThis brief presents 50-state data from the 2012 KCMU/Urban Institute Medicaid Physician Fee Survey. It estimates that average Medicaid fees to qualified physicians for Affordable Care Act primary care services will rise by 73 percent when the primary care fee increase takes effect on January 1, 2013, although there will be wide state variation.
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Increasing Medicaid Payments for Certain Primary Care Physicians in 2013 and 2014: A Primer on the Health Reform Provision and Final Rule
Issue BriefTo help ensure that access in Medicaid expands to meet anticipated higher demand for care, the health reform law requires states to pay certain physicians Medicaid fees that are at least equal to Medicare’s for a list of 146 primary care services in 2013 and 2014.
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Physician Willingness and Resources to Serve More Medicaid Patients: Perspectives from Primary Care Physicians
Issue BriefThis issue brief attempts to assess how primary care physicians will respond to the entry of 32 million newly insured people into the health care system under health reform. The increase in the number of people with health coverage is expected to intensify competition among patients and payers for primary care resources.
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Improving Access to Adult Primary Care in Medicaid: Exploring the Potential Role of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Issue BriefThe inadequate supply of primary care providers is among the major challenges facing the U.S. health care system. Sixty-five million people live in areas designated by the federal government as having a shortage of primary care providers.
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Research Brief: Insurance Coverage and Access to Care in Primary Care Shortage Areas
Issue BriefAs both federal and state governments gear up to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), concerns about the supply and distribution of physicians, particularly primary care physicians, are being raised.
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Physician Workforce: The Next Generation
Event Date:EventThe new health reform law poses questions about how the increase in the insured population will affect the demand on the health care workforce.
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Trends in Medicaid Physician Fees, 2003-2008
Fact SheetThis study, published in a Health Affairs Web exclusive, provides the first national and state-by-state update of Medicaid physician fees since 2003. Medicaid has historically reimbursed physicians under fee-for-service at levels below what Medicare and private health insurers would pay for the same services.