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Bumped-up Medicaid Fees for Primary Care Linked to Improved Appointment Availability

Sources: LDI Blog, WHYY, Courier Post, Health.com, January 22, 2015 A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine by LDI Executive Director Dan Polsky and co-authors at Penn and the Urban Institute provided the first evidence that the Medicaid “fee bump” succeed in its goal of improving primary care availability for growing numbers of Medicaid patients. In a 10-state study before and after the pay bump, primary care appointment availability improved 7.7 percentage points for Medicaid patients, while remaining unchanged for privately insured patients.