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Tracking Report No. 16
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Moderately or Very Important Reasons for Not Accepting New Medicaid Patients, 2004-05 |
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Billing Requirements/ Paperwork
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Delayed Reimbursement
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Inadequate Reimbursement
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Practice is Full
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High Clinical Burden of Medicaid Patients
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| All Physicians |
70.4%
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64.8%
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84.0%
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43.5%
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51.5%
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| Practice Type | |||||
| Solo/2 Physicians |
73.9
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65.7
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85.3
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43.2
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52.9
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| Small Group |
78.5*
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72.2
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88.1
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47.6
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54.3
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| Medium Group, Large Group and Group/Staff HMO |
56.5*
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62.0
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86.1
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41.8
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48.4
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| Institutional Provider1 |
41.3*
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54.0*
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65.9*
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43.5
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41.2
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| Other |
63.5
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45.2*
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72.9*
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32.9
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44.0
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Notes: Includes only physicians not accepting new Medicaid patients. Multiple reasons were allowed. * Difference with all physicians is statistically significant at p <.05. 1 Includes hospitals, academic medical centers, community health centers
and other free clinics. |
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