Academic Medical Center Specialty Clinics More Likely to Give Appointments to Children With Medicaid/CHIP Insurance, But They Face Longer Wait Times, Penn Researchers Report

In a study in which researchers posing as mothers attempted to schedule appointments for sick children at specialty clinics, practices affiliated with academic medical centers were less likely to deny appointments to children with Medicaid-CHIP insurance coverage versus children with commercial insurance, according to report from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...