{"id":6679,"date":"2023-05-06T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2023-05-05T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:18:04","slug":"new-patient-wait-times-in-womens-health-44-longer-with-medicaid-vs-commercial-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/05\/06\/new-patient-wait-times-in-womens-health-44-longer-with-medicaid-vs-commercial-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"New patient wait times in women\u2019s health 44% longer with Medicaid vs. commercial insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6679\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Erin T. Welsh, MA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women with Medicaid experienced significantly longer new patient wait times for obstetrics and gynecology appointments compared with those with commercial insurance, according to a national mystery caller study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHealth care providers should be aware of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/primary-care\/20230123\/preventing-maternal-mortality-we-need-data-to-truly-understand-maternal-health-in-the-us\" target=\"_blank\">potential disparities in access to care<\/a>\u00a0for patients with Medicaid insurance and work to reduce wait times and improve access to obstetrics and gynecology subspecialty care,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Michaele Francesco Corbisiero, MSc, MPH,\u00a0<\/strong>MD candidate at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, Aurora, told Healio. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/womens-health-ob-gyn\/20230424\/new-patient-wait-times-in-womens-health-44-longer-with-medicaid-vs-commercial-insurance?utm_source=selligent&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news&amp;M_BT=7635131937835\">Read more<\/a> in Healio. <\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6679\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Erin T. Welsh, MA Women with Medicaid experienced significantly longer new patient wait times for obstetrics and gynecology appointments compared with those with commercial insurance, according to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/05\/06\/new-patient-wait-times-in-womens-health-44-longer-with-medicaid-vs-commercial-insurance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New patient wait times in women\u2019s health 44% longer with Medicaid vs. commercial insurance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":5477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1921,1922,1920],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1314","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}