tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 15

PHYSICIANS: Patients Regained Lost Ground In Medicare Physician Access Struggle

But patients may be getting used to long waits for treatment.Medicare patients lost the ability to reach physicians at an alarming rate between 1997 and 2001 - but their access stabilized in 2002 and 2003, according to a new survey conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change.The proportion of Medicare beneficiaries who reported they had to delay care or couldn't find care when they needed it was 9.9 percent in 2003, roughly the same as 1999's level of 9.8 percent and down sharply from 2001's 11 percent. But one-fifth of seniors said they...

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