Medical debt was associated with worse population health, including poor physical and mental health and higher mortality rates, a study published in JAMA Network Open indicated.
Medical debt can force...
Thirty-day mortality rates were higher for acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia at hospitals with higher shares of Black patients, suggesting that Medicare’s Hospital Value-Based...
Less than 30 percent of medical students planned to practice in underserved areas between 2019 and 2021; those who did were more likely to be students of color, women, and part of the LGBTQ community,...
Middle-class Americans have the most medical debt across all ages, races, and education levels, a new report found.
The report from think tank organization Third Way used the Census’s Survey of...
Medical debt in New York State varied widely by geography in 2022, with debt more common among communities of color and those with low incomes, highlighting disparities.
The Urban Institute report...
The economic burden of health inequities ranged from $421 billion to $978 billion in 2018, suggesting more resources are needed to improve health equity for racial and ethnic minorities and people with...
Health inequity is costing the Medicare program more than $60 million on preventable heart failure hospital admissions, suggests a new study out of Tulane University.
The study published in the most...
Despite the notion that social risk adjustment may improve health equity in value-based payment models, incorporating community-level social risk factors into Medicare risk adjustment did little to...
Safety-net hospitals and hospitals with high Black and Hispanic populations received disproportionate penalties under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled payment model between...
Disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments from Medicare and Medicaid may further racial disparities by basing allocations on patient healthcare use, a study published in JAMA Network Open...
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that serve a high proportion of racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to exit the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) compared to ACOs serving mostly...
An internal analysis of three CMS Innovation Center models revealed instances of implicit bias in healthcare, which disproportionately impacted people of color and low-income individuals.
CMS...
Health inequities account for around $320 billion in annual healthcare spending, a figure that could reach $1 trillion by 2040 if stakeholders do not act accordingly, according to data from...
2020 was a pivotal year for healthcare. Not only did the industry face the worst public health crisis in modern history, but it, like the country at large, also came up against a historic social movement spurred by the death of George...
States that expanded Medicaid in 2014 saw a 45 percent decline in the mean flow of medical debt collections compared to states that chose not to expand Medicaid or those that expanded after 2014,...
In a study of over four million Medicare beneficiaries, researchers found that the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model may be widening racial and socioeconomic health disparities in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has put significant strain on safety-net hospital profitability, as explored in The Healthcare Divide, a new documentary from FRONTLINE, NPR, and American University’s...
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued an interim final rule affirming the agency’s current policy that allows interstate care delivery for VA healthcare professionals, ultimately...
Article updated 06/24/2020 to include a statement from the National Association of ACOs.
Health disparities proven by Medicare claims data during the COVID-19 crisis underscore the need to transition...
The national disparity between gross charges for hospital procedures is substantial, at an average of 297 percent difference between the lowest and highest gross charge for each individual procedure,...