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For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites
William L Schpero1, Nancy E Morden2, Thomas D Sequist3
1William L. Schpero (william.schpero@yale.edu) is a PhD student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, in New Haven, Connecticut.
Health Affairs (Project Hope)
|June 7, 2017
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.