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Medicaid Patients- yes, doctors will often rush the visit and get up very soon signaling that your session is over. Its basically cutting corners as it allows them to compensate for the small fee they collect from medicaid.

Same with dentists, even worse. They will sometimes rush bigger treatments like extracting a tooth over fixing it with a root canal or similiar since they will get paid better for the extraction rather than the whole treatment. Also might use less quality materials for treatments.
Some people on medicaid go in for a cleaning and leave with less clean teeth than if they would’ve just brushed.

In general you have to be careful with doctors skipping to more serious treatments than necessary (MONEY), although with medicaid they try less to avoid them.