As of 2012, 36 percent of physicians said they will no longer accept new Medicaid patients and 26 percent of physicians said they don’t see any Medicaid patients, according to a Jackson Healthcare report.
Physicians limiting the new number of Medicaid patients:
• Orthopedic surgeons: 50 percent
• Gastroenterologists: 47 percent
• Family medicine physicians 45 percent
• Neurologists: 43 percent
• Cardiologists: 39 percent
• Urologists: 35 percent
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