Data On Race, Ethnicity, And Language Largely Incomplete For Managed Care Plan Members

Judy H Ng; Faye Ye; Lauren M Ward; Samuel C Chris Haffer; Sarah Hudson Scholle

doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1044

Data On Race, Ethnicity, And Language Largely Incomplete For Managed Care Plan Members

Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Mar 1;36(3):548-552. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1044.

Authors

Judy H Ng¹, Faye Ye², Lauren M Ward³, Samuel C Chris Haffer⁴, Sarah Hudson Scholle⁵

Affiliations

¹ Judy H. Ng (ng@ncqa.org) is a research scientist at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, in Washington, D.C., and a visiting research collaborator at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in New Jersey.
² Faye Ye is a senior health care analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
³ Lauren M. Ward is a senior health care analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance.
⁴ Samuel C. "Chris" Haffer is director of the Data and Policy Analytics Group, Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Sarah Hudson Scholle is vice president at the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

PMID: 28264958
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1044

Abstract

The Affordable Care Act requires the federal government to collect and report population data on race, ethnicity, and language needs to help reduce health and health care disparities. We assessed data availability in commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare managed care plans using the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set. Data availability varied but remained largely incomplete.

Keywords: Disparities; Managed Care; Minority Health; Quality Of Care.

Project HOPE—The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.

MeSH terms

Data Collection / methods
Ethnicity / statistics & numerical data*
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology
Humans
Language*
Managed Care Programs / standards*
Managed Care Programs / statistics & numerical data
Medicaid
Medicare
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / standards
Population Health
Quality of Health Care / standards
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data*
United States