title: Medicaid patients' access to subspecialty care in Connecticut: teaching clinics questionnaire.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine whether Medicaid patients have ready access to subspecialty care.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey was administered to training program directors and federal clinic chiefs to ascertain, for each medical and surgical subspecialty, whether their patients had access to care "never, rarely, sometimes, usually, or always."
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventeen respondents indicated that, on average, subspecialty care in Connecticut was available "never, rarely or sometimes," 36% of the time. Results of a smaller national sample, mirrored Connecticut responses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite government mandates, Medicaid patients have insufficient access to subspecialty care.
authors: Bridgeport Hospital, CT, USA.
authors: Yekaterina
authors: Y
authors: Grewal
authors: Andre
authors: A
authors: Sofair
authors: Myriam
authors: M
authors: Guevara
authors: Constantine A
authors: CA
authors: Manthous
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003237:Connecticut / Q000453:epidemiology; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008511:Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010045:Outpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States