A significant number of women also lost or had reduced
access to primary care providers as a consequence of limiting patient options.
On the other hand, preliminary studies have found that medical home initiatives — where patients have
access to a primary care provider who can help prevent exacerbations of chronic illnesses that might otherwise lead to acute crisis — are effective in reducing ED use among Medicaid patients.
A 2011 Center for Disease Control (CDC) survey showed that 80 percent of adults discharged from the ER - meaning those who could be treated and were sent home - said they sought care at the ER due to lack of
access to a primary care provider.
Not exact matches
If or when the Aetna acquisition closes, a major organization with strong payer attributes will own a retail
provider network that is less expensive and easier
to access than traditional
primary care providers.
These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants
to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants
to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating
primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit
providers to increase the effectiveness of
care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating
primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants
to increase coverage or
access; and outpatient referrals
to improve the coordination of
care.
This directive will build upon additional measures
to expedite referrals and treatment, including expansion of Project TEACH
to connect
primary care providers with mental health specialists, enhanced screening and referrals at WIC clinics and increased
access to telepsychiatry for those in rural communities.
So we will strengthen commissioning, give more responsibility
to primary care professionals and open up
primary care: with more
providers, new
primary care services, and more weekend and evening
access.
The association between higher Medicaid reimbursements for office visits and increased likelihood of receiving cancer screenings may reflect barriers in
access to primary care physicians and other
providers for Medicaid enrollees in states with lower reimbursements.
Other factors that also affect admission and attendances at emergency departments are: how easy it is for patients
to access GP surgeries and
primary care providers; the distance the patients live away from the emergency department; and the number of confusing options patients had for
accessing emergency
care.
Open
Access means that plan members don't need
to pre-select a dental
care provider (also known as «
primary care dentist») and can switch
providers as many times as they choose
to do so.
Misuse of hospitals for non-emergency or preventable conditions is often a symptom of not having
access to outpatient
care and
primary care doctors, either because of lack of insurance or lack of
providers.
If you are a
primary care provider wishing
to access these trainings, visit the EDOPC website
to register.
The usual
care condition was enhanced by providing
primary care clinicians with training and educational materials (manuals, pocket cards) on depression evaluation and treatment.43 Patients receiving usual
care had
access to usual treatment at the site but not
to the specific mental health
providers trained in the CBT and
care management services used in the study.
Another model of a successful collaboration program between
primary providers and child psychiatrists, the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry
Access Project, promotes access to psychiatric consultation for primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration
Access Project, promotes
access to psychiatric consultation for primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration
access to psychiatric consultation for
primary care providers through a network of children's mental health collaboration teams.