Data On Race, Ethnicity, And Language Largely Incomplete For Managed Care Plan Members

Judy H Ng1, Faye Ye2, Lauren M Ward3

  • 1Judy H. Ng (ng@ncqa.org) is a research scientist at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, in Washington, D.C., and a visiting research collaborator at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in New Jersey.

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