Friday, February 18, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Managed Care Enrollee Experience
For an article in the February issue, Kevin Nguyen and coauthors investigated racial and ethnic differences in experiences of care among Medicaid managed care enrollees.
Studying Medicaid managed care enrollee survey data, the authors examined racial and ethnic disparities in four patient experience metrics.
They found that “compared with White enrollees, racial
and ethnic minority enrollees reported significantly worse experiences on all four [quality] metrics, and disparities were primarily driven by different experiences of care for minority enrollees within the same plan.”
“Medicaid managed care plans are uniquely positioned to address racial and ethnic disparities in patient experience of care,” they concluded.
“Identifying and addressing these disparities first requires improvements in data collection, data quality, and use of data to inform quality improvement initiatives.”
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
In case you missed it, make sure to check out Health Affairs’ exclusive video
interview about racism and health with Harriet A. Washington, ethicist, writer, and author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History
of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.
As part of our kickoff for the February theme issue on Racism & Health, we recently livestreamed an event with Georgetown University’s Christopher King to discuss how structural racism and historical events affect and potentially disenfranchise Black residents in Washington, D.C.
Today inHealth Affairs Forefront,Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer discuss how hospitals should be required to make plans for meeting future surge capacity needs.
In a new GrantWatch round-up, Lee-Lee Prina reports on a sampling of foundations' efforts related to COVID-19—recent reports, blog posts, and surveys funded; some grants awarded; and outcomes of previous grants. COVID-19 vaccines seem to be a recurring theme.
On the latest Health Affairs Pathways, Lalita Abhyankar explores the relationship between the role of private equity in health care and independent primary care.
Galileo's Thomas Lee on Telehealth, Equity & Access To Care
Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack interviews Galileo founder and CEO Thomas Lee about the state of telemedicine following a Kaiser Family Foundation report that found outpatient telehealth use has decreased since the COVID-19 pandemic's early months.
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