Newly-Trained Physicians Treating the Poor in Texas Are Often Educated Abroad

Tags: Medicaid | Medicare | physicians | reimbursement

Of some 1,500 physicians who received fast-track licenses in exchange for treating Texas' indigent patients, nearly 40 percent were trained at foreign schools, according to a report in the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

As more of the nation's physicians stop seeing Medicare and Medicaid patients thanks to declining reimbursements, international graduates will likely handle even more of their care, according to the report.

Physicians trained outside the U.S. or Canada already make up more than a fifth of the state's licensed physicians and more than a quarter of the doctors who are licensed each year, according to the report.

Read the Fort Worth Star Telegram report on foreign-trained physicians.

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