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What Impact is Obamacare Having on Medical Practices?

Saturday, May 30 2015
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Aetna Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned a review of the Affordable Healthcare Act to find its impact on medical practices. So reports Forbes.

Aetna's ACAview, which aims to show the impact of Obamacare on medical practices, shows that states that took the Medicaid expansion offered under the ACA saw an increase in Medicaid visits to doctors. For those states, Medicaid visits increased from 15.6% in 2013 to 21.5% in 2015. Meanwhile, Medicaid visits remained flat in states that didn’t take the expansion. 

In contrast, visits from commercially insured patients fell in states that accepted the Medicaid expansion.

Read the full article from Forbes.

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