SK&A Releases Study on Acceptance of Medicare and Medicaid Programs by U.S. Medical Offices
Summary
Irvine, CA, October 29, 2009 --( SK&A surveyed 178,000 U.S. office-based physician medical offices about their acceptance of the government-funded programs Medicare and Medicaid.The survey found Medicare and Medicaid acceptance to be largely influenced by variables such as the size, ownership, location and specialty of the physician practices.For Medicaid, the top three physician specialties that accept the program are dialysis (95.8%), nephrology (91.8%) and thoracic surgery (91.5%).Celebrating its 27th anniversary, SK&A researches and maintains contact and profiling information for over two million healthcare practitioners, including 800,000-plus prescribers.The lowest acceptance rates for Medicaid come from, like in Medicare, occupational medicine (10%), holistic medicine (10.7%) and bariatrics (13.1%).The Physician Office Acceptance of Government Insurance Programs Report (Insurance Report) was completed in the SK&A Research Center in Irvine, Calif., where a team of 75 Research Associates telephone-verifies the company’s multidimensional databases of two million healthcare contacts and provides custom research for clients to achieve specific outcomes.The best uses for SK&A’s recent Insurance Report include:Providing support for healthcare insurance billing and coding accuracyUpdating healthcare insurance network directories for membersSupporting online physician lookup directories for consumers and patientsIdentifying the general and specific market size of public insurance programsEditor’s Note: For a copy of the summary findings for publication, please contact Jack Schember, SK&A’s Vice President of Marketing, at 800-752-5478, ext.