tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 31

MEDICAID: Study Finds Elderly Patients Getting Subpar Care

Quality of care tethered to physician training, experience.Few elderly Medicaid patients receive routine preventive health care, and the likelihood of receiving poor preventive care is linked to the level of a physician's training and the size of the medical practice. These are just some of the key findings contained in a study published by researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the July 27 Journal of the American Medical Association.Investigators analyzed six recommended preventive services covered by Medicaid: routine blood tests, eye examinations for diabetics, colon screening, breast...

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