Testing the Validity of Primary Care Physicians' Self-Reported Acceptance of New Patients by Insurance Status.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare physicians' self-reported willingness to provide new patient appointments with the experience of research assistants posing as either a Medicaid beneficiary or privately insured person seeking a new patient appointment.

Data sources/study setting

Survey administered to California physicians and telephone calls placed to a subsample of respondents.

Study design

Cross-sectional comparison.

Data collection/extraction methods

All physicians whose California licenses were due for renewal in June or July 2013 were mailed a survey, which included questions about acceptance of new Medicaid and new privately insured patients. Subsequently, research assistants using a script called the practices of a stratified random sample of 209 primary care physi

SUBMITTER: Coffman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4946028 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature