Hospitals That Serve Many Black Patients Have Lower Revenues and Profits: Structural Racism in Hospital Financing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Care for Black patients is concentrated at a relatively small proportion of all US hospitals. Some previous studies have documented quality deficits at Black-serving hospitals, which may be due to inequities in financial resources for care.

Objective

To assess disparities in funding between hospitals associated with the proportion of Black patients that they serve.

Participants

All Medicare-participating hospitals, 2016-2018.

Main measures

Patient care revenues and profits per patient day at Black-serving hospitals (the top 10% of hospitals ranked by the share of Black patients among all Medicare inpatients) and at other hospitals, unadjusted and adjusted for differences in case mix and hospital characteristics.

Key results

Among the 574 Black

SUBMITTER: Himmelstein G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361904 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature