Physicians work scope is expected to change with millions of Americans to gain health insurance through the Affordable Care Act in 2014. On the upside Physicians especially primary-care provider will experience higher demand transforming to higher reimbursements and job security.

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Uninsured population rate percentage vs. Physician’s density ration in Texas,
Mississippi & Oklahoma
Physicians work scope is expected to change with millions of Americans to gain health insurance
through the Affordable Care Act in 2014. On the upside Physicians especially primary-care provider
will experience higher demand transforming to higher reimbursements and job security. However,
on the other hand other healthcare reform initiatives would require better quality patient care at
subsidized costs and hence the pressure of catering to a larger number of patients along with quality
and cost targets will build up for physicians.
Physicians in certain locations are likely to face a tougher time compared to others, most probable
providers in states currently facing physician shortages, will face the biggest challenge fitting in new
patients into their busy schedules. Moreover states currently possessing the highest number of
uninsured individuals will experience the highest increase of new patients.
According to 2011 Reports including rankings of states based on physician density and the
2011 insured population data:
Four states with the worst density/uninsured combination are:
State Uninsured population rate Least physician-dense
%
Texas 27.2% One of the least physician –
dense State
Mississippi 24.5% Third least physician-dense
State
Oklahoma 22.5% Second least physician-
dense State
Arkansas 21.0% Seventh least physician-
dense State
The physicians in these states are likely to struggle the most in 2014 due to a high influx of patients
and shortage of doctors with healthcare reforms demanding quality and cost benefits.
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States with the most favorable density /uninsured combination:
State Uninsured population rate Most physician-dense
%
Massachusetts 5.3 % One of the most physician-
dense State
Maryland 11.4% Second most physician-
dense State
Connecticut 10.3 % Fourth most physician-
dense State
Vermont 9.2 % Sixth most physician-dense
State
Physicians tackling the patient influx:
Even though the Obama administration has relaxed rules limiting the use of nurse practitioners and
physician assistants, Physicians need to gear up for the expected patient influx especially in the
states facing a physician shortage. Higher reimbursements and incentive may drive physicians to
take on more patients; conversely insuring maximum claim generation while trying to maintain
quality of care, dealing with new standards like HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, etc and government and private
payers could seem as an insurmountable task to most of the Physician practices. However, services
of skilled service providers possessing the requisite credentials can be availed by hospitals and
medical practitioners.
Medicalbillersandcoders.com experts being constantly updated with the requisites of the industry
and healthcare reforms are the right choice for physicians. Our team trained on ARRA 2009, ICD 9,
ICD -10, HIPAA 5010 and handling Revenue Management Cycle for various clients, are highly
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registration right up to denial claims management.
Maximizing your office’s efficiency and cutting your costs are some of the priorities of medical billing
and coding specialists located in Texas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma we also serve across the other 47
states in US.
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