Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have less choice when it comes to finding a psychiatrist than Medicaid enrollees or those who buy coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace do, according to a study published in Health Affairs. That’s because the networks through which MA beneficiaries might find a psychiatrist are narrower, the researchers said. Researchers with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pittsburgh and Oregon Health & Science University examined data from 2019 and “found that nearly two-thirds of psychiatrist networks in MA were considered narrow, with MA having narrower networks than Medicaid managed care and the ACA Marketplaces.”
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Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/medicare-advantage-provides-less-access-psychiatrists-do-aca-plans-managed-medicaid-study