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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (826478)	12/28/2014 11:37:30 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578921

>>> Then you must lower the cost.......what ever you get is better than no customers at all.... But if they have customers to fill the void they have no problem..... Medicaid knows this. It really doesn't work like that. You can cut the quality of the service only so much and still comply with professional standards and pay the malpractice costs. What I see happening now with our customers is that providers are handing these patients off to nurses. Which is probably a reasonable way to proceed under the circumstances, but no one should mistake it as anything other than a reduction in the quality of care for Medicaid (and Medicare) patients in exchange for providing free care for others. However, there is a dramatic shortage of Medicaid providers that is getting worse by the month. I see that in my own work, yet Arkansas is one of the lesser affected states since our Medicaid currently reimburses the 90% of patients on the Private Option at higher levels than most states' Medicaid systems. Still, we have vast areas of the state that do not have specialist coverage for Medicaid patients.