Herald-Tribune
By: Maggie Clark
A new survey on Florida pediatricians’ perspectives on Medicaid showed that children have been being moved from different Medicaid insurance companies to others, without their parents consent. This makes more than 80% experience trouble getting their patients the medications and/or treatments that they are seeking for.
Consequently, Florida state ranks in the lowest quarter of all states for the percentage of children that get a primary care or dental visit from ages ranging from 3 to 19. Because of the Medicaid program’s shortcomings and wretched reimbursement rates, pediatricians and physicians are being strained to reduce the children they take care of or deal with bankruptcy.
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The findings stem from a statewide survey of members of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, commissioned by a partnership between the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Herald-Tribune.
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While the pediatricians and state are committed to working together in the coming years to improve the Medicaid program, the state and the pediatricians have a lot of ground to make up between them when it comes to improving the access and health outcomes of Medicaid-enrolled children, the Georgetown study found.
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