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Medicaid records and the psychiatric private sector

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.12.1586

The authors report a study or records maintained by private practitioners for their Medicaid patients. The quality of record keeping in general fell far short of Medicaid requirements. Board- certified or hospital-affiliated psychiatrists kept better charts than those who did not have these credentials. Educational background did not correlate with extent of record keeping.

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