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Anna Zink is a doctoral student in health policy at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Jul;37(7):1087-1091. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1085.
While most primary care physicians treated at least one Medicaid patient in 2013, Medicaid represented a small share of their payer mix. Following Medicaid eligibility expansion in 2014, most physicians maintained or slightly increased their Medicaid participation, with greater increases observed in states that expanded eligibility. Nevertheless, Medicaid patients remained concentrated among relatively few physicians after expansion.
虽然大多数初级保健医生在 2013 年至少治疗了一名医疗补助患者,但医疗补助在他们的支付组合中仅占一小部分。在 2014 年扩大医疗补助资格后,大多数医生保持或略有增加了他们的医疗补助参与度,在扩大资格的州观察到的增幅更大。尽管如此,扩大资格后,医疗补助患者仍然集中在相对较少的医生中。