{"id":22248,"date":"2015-01-22T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2015-01-22T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:50:42","slug":"doctor-pay-raise-increases-medicaid-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22248\/doctor-pay-raise-increases-medicaid-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Pay Raise Increases Medicaid Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think rationing health care spending has an effect of which patients doctors see?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/media.navigatored.com\/documents\/Polsky.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> released by the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> found that Medicaid beneficiaries enjoyed a 7.7 percent bump in the number of appointments doctors scheduled with them when government reimbursement rates increased.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the poor who use Medicaid, once ObamaCare\u2019s temporary subsidy phased out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/gov-doctor-medicaid-federal-pay-raise.html\" target=\"_blank\">states didn\u2019t have the extra money<\/a> to continue the higher reimbursements to doctors.<\/p>\n<p>And so, it\u2019s likely that doctors will respond to the new (lower) price signal and cut back on the number of Medicaid patients they schedule.<\/p>\n<p>From a policy perspective this study confirms that doctors respond to economic incentives, and that if we as a society are going to help the poorest of the poor get adequate health care Congress and the president need to start prioritizing federal spending so that there\u2019s more money available to help those who need it.<\/p>\n<p>If the folks in Washington, D.C. are looking for a place to start trimming, former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn\u2019s (R-OK) \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/10\/22\/wastebook-2014-eight-absurd-government-projects-funded-with-your-money\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Wastebook 2014<\/a>\u201d is a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think rationing health care spending has an effect of which patients doctors see? A new study released by the New England Journal of Medicine found that Medicaid beneficiaries enjoyed a 7.7 percent bump in the number of appointments doctors scheduled with them when government reimbursement rates increased. Unfortunately for the poor who use Medicaid, once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,232,35,61,1912,2249,15],"class_list":["post-22248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-medicaid","tag-obamacare","tag-spending","tag-states","tag-subsidy","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22254,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22248\/revisions\/22254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}