Physicians experience much greater difficulty referring children in Medicaid and CHIP to specialty care, compared to privately insured children. On the basis of the physician survey, more than three times as many participating physicians—84 percent—experience difficulty referring Medicaid and CHIP children to specialty care as experience difficulty referring privately insured children—26 percent. For all children, physicians most frequently cited difficulty with specialty referrals for mental health, dermatology, and neurology.
Recent News
- Friday Facts: May 3, 2024
- To impact change, look local
- Hybrid schools look to the future
- Georgia elections are better-positioned than ever before
- What is the Georgia Promise Scholarship?
- Friday Facts: April 26, 2024
- Is this Georgia fee still constitutional?
- Georgians deserve more transparency, consistency and opportunity with open enrollment policies
- Georgia Public Policy Foundation applauds Gov. Kemp for signing Georgia Promise Scholarship Act
- Prison contraband, overpaid school bus drivers and wasted COVID-19 relief money made March a month for waste, fraud and abuse