Insured, Low Income Patients Face Hurdles To Health Care Access
Having health insurance is only one of the hurdles that patients have to clear in order to see a doctor these days, according to a new study of Floridians receiving Medicaid.When interviewers posing as Medicaid patients called doctors’ offices that participate in the Florida Medicaid program, they were met in some cases by disconnected numbers, phone trees and time on hold before they could find out about scheduling an appointment.