Tracking The Elusive Medicaid Workforce To Improve Access

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Discusses challenges to evaluating Medicaid enrollees' access to primary care providers. Describes how the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity used the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) to examine the primary care workforce providing healthcare to Medicaid enrollees. Outlines Medicaid workforce policy challenges, including federal regulations, workforce composition and supply, and community and market factors.

Candice Chen, Qian "Eric" Luo, Mandar Bodas, et al.

Health Affairs Forefront

08/2023

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Access · Health workforce supply and demand · Legislation and regulations · Maternal health and prenatal care · Medicaid · Policy · Primary care · Iowa · Virginia