Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Quality of Care Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors sought to update and expand the evidence on the quality of health care and disparities in care among Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia.

Methods

Adult beneficiaries of New York State Medicaid with schizophrenia receiving care during 2016-2019 were identified. Composite quality scores were derived from item response theory models by using evidence-based indicators of the quality of mental and general medical health care. Risk-adjusted racial-ethnic differences in quality were estimated and summarized as percentiles relative to White beneficiaries' mean quality scores.

Results

The study included 71,013 beneficiaries; 42.8% were Black, 22.9% Latinx, 27.4% White, and 6.9% other race-ethnicity. Overall, 68.8% had a mental health follow-up withi

SUBMITTER: Normand SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12044604 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature