As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care

So if they try to keep costs down there won't be enough service. Click here to read the article. Excerpts:

"doctors who have been receiving the enhanced payments will see their fees for primary care cut by 43 percent, on average."

"Medicaid payments for primary care services could drop by 50 percent or more in California, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, among other states."

"some patients would have less access to care after the cuts."

"A survey by the Ohio State Medical Association found that some Ohio doctors began accepting Medicaid patients because of the rate increase in 2013. Ohio doctors who were already participating in the program said they had accepted more Medicaid patients after the rate increase. And almost 40 percent of Ohio doctors indicated that they planned to accept fewer Medicaid patients when the extra payments lapsed."