Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the US, a physician can be paid very different amounts for treating different patients, even when providing identical services. Understanding physician practices' financial incentives to serve different racial and ethnic groups may help inform payment policies to reduce health disparities.

Objective

To measure disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic market, and year, and to quantify the role of health insurance source and other factors in these disparities.

Design, setting, and participants

A unique, nationally representative dataset of outpatient visits containing survey-obtained patient race and ethnicity and payment am

SUBMITTER: Schwartz AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12658675 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature