Researchers analyzed the potential gaps between demand and capacity for primary care. Results showed that eight states — Oklahoma, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada, North Carolina and Kentucky — will face the greatest challenges based on projections of Medicaid expansions and weak primary care capacities. Without significant efforts to address this problem, the new population of insured Medicaid patients “could outstrip the supply of primary care providers in these states,” the article says.
Read the article about Medicaid patients and primary care.
Read other coverage about Medicaid patients:
– HHS Allocates $4B to Move Medicaid Patients From Healthcare Facilities to Their Homes
– Medicaid, Uninsured Admissions Outpaced Private-Pay Admissions 1997-2008
