Finding good Medicaid treatment remains difficult

Large numbers of doctors who are listed as serving Medicaid patients are not available to treat them, federal investigators said in a new report.

“Half of providers could not offer appointments to enrollees,” the investigators said in the report, which will be issued on Tuesday.

Many of the doctors were not accepting new Medicaid patients or could not be found at their last known addresses, according to the report from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The study raises questions about access to care for people gaining Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

That is from Robert Pear, there is more here.  And about one-quarter of actual providers had wait times of over a month.  Once again, it is the supply-side problems in American medicine which are paramount.