Psychiatric News (7/11) reports, “Between 2007 and 2016, psychiatrists who were accepting new patients participated in insurance networks at lower rates than physicians who were not psychiatrists,” according to findings published online July 10 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association. The report “also revealed that the gap in insurance acceptance between psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists was wider for Medicare and Medicaid than for private insurance.” Researchers arrived at these conclusions after analyzing “10 years of data (January 2007 to December 2016) from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.”
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— “Study Highlights Gaps in Insurance Acceptance Between Psychiatrists, Other Physicians, Psychiatric News, July 11, 2023