Geography and the Medicaid Mental Health Care Infrastructure: Implications for Health Care Reform

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Examines the availability of outpatient mental health facilities that accept Medicaid across U.S. counties and whether specific population groups such as minorities, people living in poverty, and rural residents may be less likely to access these facilities.

Janet R. Cummings, Hefei Wen, Michelle Ko, Benjamin G. Druss

JAMA Psychiatry, 70(10), 1084-1090

10/2013

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Access · Black or African American · Hispanic or Latino · Medicaid · Mental health · Statistics and data