Inaccurate Provider Lists A Major Barrier To Care, Study Finds

(By Emily Bazar)

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.”

Provider directories for some health plans sold through Covered California and in the private market are so inaccurate that they create an “awful” situation for consumers trying to find doctors, according to the lead author of a new study published in the journal Health Affairs. Read article here…..

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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