For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites. - PubMed - NCBI

For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites. - PubMed - NCBI

Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Jun 1;36(6):1065-1069. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1416.

For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites.

Schpero WL1, Morden NE2, Sequist TD3, Rosenthal MB4, Gottlieb DJ5, Colla CH6.

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Abstract

US minority populations receive fewer effective health services than whites. Using Medicare administrative data for 2006-11, we found no consistent, corresponding protection against the receipt of ineffective health services. Compared with whites, blacks and Hispanics were often more likely to receive the low-value services studied.

KEYWORDS:

Disparities; Health Reform; Medicare; Minority Health; Quality Of Care

PMID:

 

28583965

 

PMCID:

 

PMC5568010

 [Available on 2018-06-01]

 

DOI:

 

10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1416