” he said. “There’s a lot more work to be done to improve mental health care for all Americans, but making sure you can find a doctor when you need care is step one.”
“Trying to find a doctor wasn’t always the easiest, because you have to call [so many] different places. Especially when it was a specialist. In the end, I couldn’t go get a second opinion, because there was only one that took Medicaid, it was super far away,” she said. “[M...
“When a parent receives a message that they aren’t eligible anymore, they often assume their child is no longer eligible either,” said Joan Alker, the center’s executive director. “It’s more common to find that the parent is no longer eligible for Medicaid, but the child still is...
Because so many services are left to the discretion of the state, many of these optional benefits may not be available where you live. For example, inVirginia, even basic dental care is not covered. In addition, becauseMedicaid reimbursementsto physicians are low, you may have a hard time g...
To measure the effect of fees on treatment intensity, I also examine theeffect of fees on the amount of time that a doctor spends with Medicaidpatients during a visit compared to visit times for privately insured patients.When enacted in 1965, the original Medicaid legislation sought to finance...