Open AccessRacial Disparities in Avoidable Hospitalizations in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage
Author(s) -
Sungchul Park,
Paul Fishman,
Norma B. Coe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001632
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , referral , racial differences , effect modification , ambulatory , health equity , health insurance , propensity score matching , health care , gerontology , ethnic group , public health , family medicine , confidence interval , nursing , sociology , anthropology , economics , economic growth
Compared with traditional Medicare (TM), Medicare Advantage (MA) has the potential to reduce racial disparities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC). As racial disparities may be partly attributable to unequal treatment based on where people live, this suggests the need of examining geographic variations in racial disparities.