Patients that have Medicaid have poorer access to care and poorer health results than patients with private insurance. In this case, privately health insured patients are able to discover more opportunistic treatment options, swifter medical care and are able to access more primary or preventative care. Medicaid patients have a difficult time accessing health care from medical facilities due to the poor reimbursement for provided health services. “Medicaid typically pays physicians 56 percent of the amount that private insurers pay” (Dayaratna, 2012, p.3). As doctors continue turning away Medicaid patients, it will remain difficult for these patients to seek health care from primary or specialty doctors. As a result of Medicaid patients being turned away, they are subject to late diagnoses, which put them at an increased risk of serious health conditions or even death. At an alarming rate, Medicaid patients are filling the Emergency Departments with disadvantaged or untreatable conditions. “In fact, research has shown that Medicaid and CHIP patients end up in emergency rooms even more frequently than uninsured patients” (Dayaratna, 2012, p. 13). Research goes to prove that Medicaid patients are underprivileged when compared to privately insured
Patients that have Medicaid have poorer access to care and poorer health results than patients with private insurance. In this case, privately health insured patients are able to discover more opportunistic treatment options, swifter medical care and are able to access more primary or preventative care. Medicaid patients have a difficult time accessing health care from medical facilities due to the poor reimbursement for provided health services. “Medicaid typically pays physicians 56 percent of the amount that private insurers pay” (Dayaratna, 2012, p.3). As doctors continue turning away Medicaid patients, it will remain difficult for these patients to seek health care from primary or specialty doctors. As a result of Medicaid patients being turned away, they are subject to late diagnoses, which put them at an increased risk of serious health conditions or even death. At an alarming rate, Medicaid patients are filling the Emergency Departments with disadvantaged or untreatable conditions. “In fact, research has shown that Medicaid and CHIP patients end up in emergency rooms even more frequently than uninsured patients” (Dayaratna, 2012, p. 13). Research goes to prove that Medicaid patients are underprivileged when compared to privately insured