Potentially More Out of Reach: Public Reporting Exacerbates Inequities in Home Health Access.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points Public reporting is associated with both mitigating and exacerbating inequities in high-quality home health agency use for marginalized groups. Ensuring equitable access to home health requires taking a closer look at potentially inequitable policies to ensure that these policies are not inadvertently exacerbating disparities as home health public reporting potentially does. Targeted federal, state, and local interventions should focus on raising awareness about the five-star quality ratings among marginalized populations for whom inequities have been exacerbated.

Context

Literature suggests that public reporting of quality may have the unintended consequence of exacerbating disparities in access to high-quality, long-term care for older adults. The objective of this s

SUBMITTER: Fashaw-Walters SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10262386 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature