Over 214,000 Doctors Opt Out of Obamacare Exchanges

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14. "41.8% of them said it was because no one had asked them to."

From a post regarding this same "issue" on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2kq2us/over_214000_doctors_opt_out_of_obamacare_exchanges/

The full post that included other links including one to the survey being twisted:

[–]KennethJohnKelly 2 points 2 hours ago

The author of the original source article based this claim on an MGMA survey taken in April. At that time, 23.5% of the respondents reported that they weren't yet participating in any exchange products.

As of September, there were 893,851 physicians in the US so, voila, 24% of 893851 is ... 214,524 ... and Bob's your uncle!

As bad as that is in itself, the original survey also asked the non-participating docs why they weren't participating. 41.8% of them said it was because no one had asked them to.

Jesus wept.

http://americanactionforum.org/insights/health-care-providers-are-opting-out-of-obamacare-exchang-plans http://www.mgma.com/government-affairs/issues-overview/aca/aca-exchange-implementation-report/aca-surveyreport_online_2?ext=.pdf http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-active-physicians

A few snippets from the survey summary (These barely touch the surface. Please read entirety for pertinent details):

MGMA ACA Exchange Implementation Survey Report,
©2014. Medical Group Management Association. All rights reserved.


Summary of Findings

MGMA noted three main themes within the findings.


Obtaining coverage information

Practices have experienced difficulty identifying patients with ACA exchange coverage and obtaining essential information related to that coverage.

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Patient cost-sharing

Practices are facing a number of challenges related to patient cost-sharing for ACA exchange coverage

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Network limitations

Practices have concerns about the impact of the network design of many ACA exchange product