Structural Racial Disparities in the Allocation of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1;5(11):e2240328. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.40328.

Authors

William L Schpero¹, Paula Chatterjee^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York.
² Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines the allocation of Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments by race.

MeSH terms

Economics, Hospital*
Hospitals
Humans
Medicaid*
United States