Several HCP researchers—Research Fellow Nakela Cook, MD, MPH (lead author); Instructor in Health Care Policy LeRoi Hicks, MD, MPH; Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Statistics) James O’Malley, PhD; Project Director Thomas Keegan; Professor of Health Care Policy Edward Guadagnoli, PhD; and Associate Professor of Health Care Policy Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSc (senior author)—interviewed medical directors of publicly funded community health centers. The researchers found that uninsured patients face significant obstacles accessing specialty services outside of the centers, even after a physician has deemed them necessary. While Medicaid patients, to a lesser extent, also face obstacles, insured/Medicare patients have a far easier time accessing needed services. Read the abstract of this article and the Harvard Medical School press release.