Reconsidering and Measuring Patient Access in Medicaid

Recent Medicaid policy discussions have focused on coverage issues because millions of beneficiaries have been disenrolled during the unwinding of COVID-19 pandemic–era eligibility protections. But access to care during a person’s enrollment in Medicaid is an equally important issue, and one that is particularly thorny to measure and address.

Reconsidering and Measuring Patient Access in Medicaid

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