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studies: Medicaid patients often have trouble finding doctors willing to treat them.
“We have one insurer [Medicaid] that pays a lot less than other insurers. And on top of those lower payments, it’s hard to actually collect the fees that are expected,” he said. “So we thought: This may be an important factor that doctors are considering when deciding whether to treat Medicaid patients.”
The researchers found that about one in four Medicaid claims have payment denied for at least one service after the initial submissions. Denials for Medicare and commercial insurers are less frequent, at about 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively.
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A seven-person crew within BLM Louisville cooks and delivers hundreds of meals every week to the elderly and homeless, and the group is also working to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among Black residents.