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To the Editor: The Medicaid Access Study Group's telephone survey of 953 ambulatory care sites in 10 cities, including Sacramento (May 19 issue), found that Medicaid recipients in urban areas have limited access to outpatient care apart from that offered by hospital emergency departments¹. The article mentions the practice at the University of California, Davis, of sending patients with nonemergency problems to other ambulatory care sites. The survey found that only 22 percent of the 120 ambulatory care sites studied in Sacramento were willing or able to treat a Medicaid recipient within two days after the call. We disagree . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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