The physician networks developed by Medicaid managed care plans suffer from a degree of turnover that threatens continuity of care for their members.

While the number of Medicaid managed care plans using so-called narrow networks of providers declined by more than a third between 2010 and 2015, physician turnover is higher in those narrow network plans:  three percentage points higher after one year and 20 percentage points higher after five years than the networks of plans that do not employ narrow networks.

Collectively, Medicaid managed care plans experienced physician turnover of 12 percent a year from 2010 to 2015.

Learn more about physician turnover in Medicaid managed care plans in the Health Affairs study “Network Optimization And The Continuity Of Physicians In Medicaid Managed Care,” which can be found here.