Recent Findings from Brown University Has Provided New Information about Health and Society (Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Patient Experience of Care Among Nonelderly Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees): Health and Medicine – Health and Society

2022 APR 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Health and Medicine - Health and Society have been published. According to news reporting out of Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Medicaid managed care enrollees who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups have historically reported worse care experiences than White enrollees. Few recent studies have identified disparities within and between Medicaid managed care plans.”

Financial supporters for this research include Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program, National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health from the Rhode Island IDeA-CTR award.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Brown University, “Using 2014-18 data on 242,274 nonelderly Medicaid managed care enrollees in thirty-seven states, we examined racial and ethnic disparities in four patient experience metrics. Compared with White enrollees, minority enrollees reported significantly worse care experiences. Overall adjusted disparities for Black enrollees ranged between 1.5 and 4.5 percentage points; 1.6-3.9 percentage points for Hispanic or Latino enrollees; and 9.0-17.4 percentage points for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander enrollees. Disparities were largely attributable to worse experiences by race or ethnicity within the same plan. For all outcomes, disparities were smaller in plans with the highest percentages of Hispanic or Latino enrollees, and for some outcomes, there were smaller disparities in plans with the highest percentages of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander enrollees.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Interventions to mitigate racial and ethnic inequities in care experiences include collection of comprehensive race and ethnicity data, adoption of health equity performance metrics, plan-level enrollee engagement, and multisectoral initiatives to dismantle structural racism.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Patient Experience of Care Among Nonelderly Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees. Health Affairs, 2022;41(2):256-264. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kevin H. Nguyen, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States. Additional authors for this research include Ira B. Wilson, Amal N. Trivedi and Anya R. Wallack.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01331. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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