Too often, mental health patients have problems accessing or paying for their prescription drugs under Medicaid. The results - longer hospital stays and more emergency room visits - are hard on patients and costly for the entire health care system, a new study finds. Lead author Joyce West, Ph.D., and colleagues analyzed Medicaid data from 10 states and found that psychiatric patients who reported access problems with their medication visited the emergency department 74 percent more often than those who had no such difficulties...
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