Medicaid can be fixed with coordinated care, ACP says

Coordinated primary care should be at the center of any Medicaid reform, according to the American College of Physicians (ACP).

In a position paper released at Internal Medicine 2011, the college's annual scientific meeting, ACP says that Medicaid eligibility standards should be uniform on a national basis and emphasize quality care over volume-based care and should provide more options for patients to meet their long-term care needs. The paper also advocates making fees the same as Medicare reimbursements so that doctors will accept more Medicaid patients.