Collection of individuals’ and providers’ race and ethnicity data to advance heath equity remains inconsistent and incomplete. Though interest in using data to reduce inequities may be stronger than ever, systemic barriers slow progress.
This map explores how health care disparities are a product of race-based and facially race-neutral racist structures across systems that are, in turn, driven by inequitable mental models, norms, and values.
Across the 25 most populous cities in New York State, cities with the highest share of consumers with medical debt in collections on their credit reports in 2022 included Elmira, Syracuse, Poughkeepsie, Utica, Rome, and Niagara Falls.
This policy brief examines the spending of the four types of post-acute care providers, their payments in relation to cost, and proposals to reduce Medicare spending for post-acute care.
If the 10 states who have yet to expand medicaid under the affordable care act were to do so in 2024, an estimated 2.3 million people would gain health coverage. Groups with the highest gains in coverage because of Medicaid expansion include non-Hispanic Black people, young adults, and women.
