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The role of payment and financing in achieving health equity
Brede H Eschliman1, Hongmai H Pham2, Amol S Navathe3,4
1Medicare Drug Rebate and Negotiations Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Windsor Mill, Maryland, USA.
Objective:
The aim was to identify healthcare payment and financing reforms to promote health equity and ways that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) may promote those reforms.
Data Sources And Study Setting:
AHRQ convened a payment and financing workgroup-the authors of this paper-as part of its Health Equity Summit held in July 2022. This workgroup drew from its collective experience with healthcare payment and financing reform, as well as feedback from participants in a session at the Health Equity Summit, to identify the evidence base and promising paths for reforms to promote health equity.
Study Design:
The payment and financing workgroup developed an outline of reforms to promote health equity, presented the outline to participants in the payment and financing session of the July 2022 AHRQ Health Equity Summit, and integrated feedback from the participants.
Data Collection/Extraction Methods:
This paper did not require novel data collection; the authors collected the data from the existing evidence base.
Principal Findings:
The paper outlines root causes of health inequity and corresponding potential reforms in five domains: (1) the differential distribution of resources between healthcare providers serving different communities, (2) scarcity of financing for populations most in need, (3) lack of integration/accountability, (4) patient cost barriers to care, and (5) bias in provider behavior and diagnostic tools.
Conclusions:
Additional research is necessary to determine whether the proposed reforms are effective in promoting health equity.
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