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For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites.


ABSTRACT: US minority populations receive fewer effective health services than whites. Using Medicare administrative data for 2006-11, we found no consistent, corresponding protection against the receipt of ineffective health services. Compared with whites, blacks and Hispanics were often more likely to receive the low-value services studied.

SUBMITTER: Schpero WL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5568010 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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For Selected Services, Blacks And Hispanics More Likely To Receive Low-Value Care Than Whites.

Schpero William L WL   Morden Nancy E NE   Sequist Thomas D TD   Rosenthal Meredith B MB   Gottlieb Daniel J DJ   Colla Carrie H CH  

Health affairs (Project Hope) 20170601 6


US minority populations receive fewer effective health services than whites. Using Medicare administrative data for 2006-11, we found no consistent, corresponding protection against the receipt of ineffective health services. Compared with whites, blacks and Hispanics were often more likely to receive the low-value services studied. ...[more]

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