Prior to 2013, Medicaid paid doctors on average nationwide only 59% of what Medicare would pay for primary care services [1], which itself pays less than what doctors typically bring in from private insurers. With the goal of increasing access to health care in mind, the Affordable Care Act provided a federally-funded temporary bump for Medicaid to 100% of Medicare primary care reimbursement rates from 2013 to 2014.
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February 23, 2015
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