No Increase In Demand For Primary Care Physicians Post Health Care Reform Open Enrollment Period

Over the first five months of 2014, after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) first open enrollment period for the health insurance exchange marketplaces, there has not been an increase in new patient visits to physicians when compared to 2013.  The percentage of visits from new patients seeking primary care in the first five months of the year declined from 19.3% in 2013 to 18.8% in 2014. In Medicaid expansion states, the proportion of primary care visits by non-elderly adult Medicaid beneficiaries visits increased from 12.3% in December 2013, to 15.6% in . . .