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Accepted or Excepted Health Insurance?, Pt.2 – The breakdown.

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Another topic of the survey was an inquiry as to which doctors were accepting new patients at all. That figure was high, with over 94% that would accept new patients. Things go down after that. The good news, though, is that there are many doctors out there and they will accept you under the right conditions. So what are the best worst and best conditions? Taken from the subset of these responding doctors who will accept new patients into their practice, the study came up with these results:

•  Only 57% of the physicians would see patients who likely had no health insurance.
•  57% were willing to see patients whose only medical care was Workers' Compensation health insurance.
•  68% of the doctors were willing to see patients having a capitated type of health insurance.
•  80% of doctors were willing to see new individuals who were covered by Medicare plans*.
•  The best was 89% accepting new patients who had non-capitated health insurance.

Obviously we all hope to not find ourselves in either of the first two categories. Some of us, however, are willing to risk going without any health insurance, perhaps because we feel healthy and invincible. Our good Dr. strongly and wisely prescribes we don’t do that. ‘Any health insurance is still better than no health insurance. All it takes is one mosquitoes bite or someone ‘texting’ at the wheel to do us in. Billions of mosquitoes and billions of ‘texters’, I swear!

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