Becker's Healthcare April 24, 2024
A Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study suggests nearly 80% hospitals admit a significantly different proportion of Black Medicare patients age 65 and older compared to those admitted to any hospital in that market — which could point to racial sorting.
The study, published April 19 in JAMA Network Open, analyzed more than 4.8 million patients from a sample of 1,991 hospitals across the U.S. during 2019. The researchers developed a measure called Local Hospital Segregation index, which takes the percentage of a racial group in a given hospital’s admissions and subtracts the percentage of that race in all hospital admissions in the surrounding area — defined as ZIP codes within 30 minutes of driving time. The first-of-its-kind...
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