Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975–1979: Findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys

Public Sector Primary Care and Medicaid: Trading Accessibility for Mainstreaming

“…Physicians in less competitive rural areas, in contrast, have few locational or cost incentives to specialize in any particular type of patient and are more likely to accept most patients who present themselves for care (Kehrer, Sloan, and Woolridge 1984). Practice costs are generally lower than in urban areas, Medicaid reimbursement levels are frequently closer to prevailing charges, and there are insufficient Medicaid patients to allow physicians to realize any economies of scale inherent in the formation of specialized practices.…”

Public Sector Primary Care and Medicaid: Trading Accessibility for Mainstreaming

“…Physicians in less competitive rural areas, in contrast, have few locational or cost incentives to specialize in any particular type of patient and are more likely to accept most patients who present themselves for care (Kehrer, Sloan, and Woolridge 1984). Practice costs are generally lower than in urban areas, Medicaid reimbursement levels are frequently closer to prevailing charges, and there are insufficient Medicaid patients to allow physicians to realize any economies of scale inherent in the formation of specialized practices.…”

Public Sector Primary Care and Medicaid: Trading Accessibility for Mainstreaming

“…Physicians in less competitive rural areas, in contrast, have few locational or cost incentives to specialize in any particular type of patient and are more likely to accept most patients who present themselves for care (Kehrer, Sloan, and Woolridge 1984). Practice costs are generally lower than in urban areas, Medicaid reimbursement levels are frequently closer to prevailing charges, and there are insufficient Medicaid patients to allow physicians to realize any economies of scale inherent in the formation of specialized practices.…”

Public Sector Primary Care and Medicaid: Trading Accessibility for Mainstreaming

“…Physicians in less competitive rural areas, in contrast, have few locational or cost incentives to specialize in any particular type of patient and are more likely to accept most patients who present themselves for care (Kehrer, Sloan, and Woolridge 1984). Practice costs are generally lower than in urban areas, Medicaid reimbursement levels are frequently closer to prevailing charges, and there are insufficient Medicaid patients to allow physicians to realize any economies of scale inherent in the formation of specialized practices.…”