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It's one reason he's proposed for backing out of the deal to pay doctors more for treating Medicaid patients, saying the money is better spent to make sure California doesn't have to cut benefits ...
To pay doctors more, Newsom and the state Legislature chose to raise taxes — but not in the way you might think. Just about every state taxes things like hospitals, nursing homes and ambulances ...
“Dental (care for adults on Medicaid) is not sort of a freestanding program in my mind. It’s part of our overall efforts to manage the long-run costs of Medicaid by providing the appropriate ...
In 1985, Medicaid patients made up 28% of all CHC patients but only 15% of CHC revenues. [5] By 2007, the share of Medicaid patients matched their share of revenues. In the same time period, grants for the uninsured decreased from 51% to 21%. [5] In 2008, Medicaid payments had grown to account for 37% of all CHC revenues. [4]
The $880 billion Medicaid program is financed mostly by federal taxpayers, who pick up as much as 80% of the tab in some states. And states, too, have said they're having trouble financing years of growth and sicker patients who enrolled in Medicaid. To whittle down the budget, the GOP-controlled Congress is eyeing work requirements for Medicaid.
In 2000, 57% of doctors were independent, but this decreased to 33% by 2016. Between 2012 and 2015, there was a 50% increase in the number of physicians employed by hospitals. [9] 26 percent have opted out of seeing patients with Medicaid and 15 percent have opted out of seeing patients with health insurance exchange plans. [10]
Safety net hospitals oftentimes find themselves in difficult financial positions due to the vulnerable financial state of the patients and lack of sufficient federal, state and local funding; safety net hospitals have high rates of Medicaid and Medicare payers [8] [9] [1] (Medicaid has unreliable/insufficient processes of government to hospital repayment [8]) and a large proportion of safety ...
Lankford is among a handful of doctors who are fighting back in court against the increasing prevalence of noncompete agreements, which often prevent a doctor from seeing patients for one to two ...