Medicaid expansion has given thousands of Virginia patients access to new health coverage. Medicaid’s success in Virginia depends on patients having broad access to care. Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates make it unsustainable for some medical practices to employ, support, and retain the team needed to care for these patients.
2018 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics1: “Office-based primary care pediatricians increased their Medicaid participation after the payment increase.”
1Suk-fong, S. T., Hudak, M. L., Cooley, D. M., Shenkin, B. N., & Racine, A. D. (2018). Increased Medicaid payment and participation by office-based primary care pediatricians. Pediatrics, 141(1), e20172570.
