Variability in Primary Care Physician Attitudes Toward Medicaid Work Requirement Exemption Requests Made by Patients With Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicaid work requirements seek to promote health and personal responsibility but can also jeopardize health care access. Physicians have a central function in assisting patients with exemption requests, but it is unclear how their role affects patient welfare, professionalism, and the ethical and legal justification of programs.

Objective

To understand the degree of variability in physician response to assist patients with depression in receiving a Medicaid work requirement exemption.

Design setting and participants

We conducted a mailed survey experiment among practicing primary care physicians in the first 4 approved states (Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana, New Hampshire) in July and October of 2019. We report response, cooperation, refusal, and contact rate

SUBMITTER: Schmidt H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8727036 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature