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Few Medicaid and uninsured patients are accessing dermatologists.

Resneck JS, Isenstein A, Kimball AB

Department of Dermatology and Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143-0316, USA. resneckj@derm.ucsf.edu

Uninsured patients and those receiving Medicaid make up a smaller fraction of dermatology practices (5%) than would be predicted by their prevalence in the population (27%). We illustrate the ways in which insurance acceptance patterns and practice composition vary by the age, gender, practice type, and geographic location of the dermatologist.

Published 19 November 2006 in J Am Acad Dermatol, 55(6): 1084-8.
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