Commonwealth Fund July 5, 2022
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A study of racial inequities in Medicaid found that Black enrollees are more likely than white enrollees to use the emergency department for avoidable reasons, suggesting they may have worse access to ambulatory care
States working to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid programs need to go beyond conventional quality analyses and consider health care spending and service use
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare — and exacerbated — health inequities among people of different races and ethnicities. Given that more than half of the country’s 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries identify as Black, Latinx/Hispanic, Asian American, or other people of color, state Medicaid programs can play key roles in reducing these inequities. However, health inequities in Medicaid are...
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