Healthcare Informatics January 12, 2017
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that have a high proportion of minority patients were associated with low scores on about three-fourths of Medicare quality performance measures, according to new research published in Health Affairs.
Researchers from Dartmouth Institute, UC-Berkeley and elsewhere, set out to analyze racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare outcomes among ACOs to investigate the association between the share of an ACO’s patients who are members of racial or ethnic minority groups and the ACO’s performance on quality measures.
Using data from Medicare and a national survey of ACOs, they found that having a higher proportion of minority patients was associated with worse scores on 25 of 33 (76 percent) of Medicare quality performance measures, two disease composite measures,...
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