Chief Healthcare Executive August 15, 2022
Researchers found a significant difference in financing for Black-serving hospitals. A small portion of America’s hospitals care for a large number of the nation’s Black patients.
Hospitals with a higher concentration of Black patients get lower payments for caring for patients.
That’s the key finding of a recent study in the Journal of Greater Internal Medicine examining reimbursement rates of hospitals. It’s significant because a relatively small number of hospitals care for a substantial portion of Black Americans.
The differences in funding could be contributing to disparities in health outcomes, the authors wrote in the study.
“These ongoing funding disparities reinforce inequities in resources inherited from the past, and may undermine the quality of care at Black-serving hospitals,” the authors...
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