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About half of Medicaid doctors in managed-care networks can’t offer appointments to patients because they don’t have availability or their status with the health plan isn’t accurate, according to a report released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General.
In cold calls with doctors listed in the directories of privately managed Medicaid plans, 35 percent weren’t practicing at their listed location, 8 percent were no longer participating in the plan and 8 percent weren’t seeing new patients, according to the report. The report also found that 28 percent of doctors have wait times of more than a month, and 10 percent had wait times longer than two months.