Asian, Black, and Hispanic people participating in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease appear to have lower odds than white people for positive amyloid PE
Medicare beneficiaries who live in urban areas, or who are young or female, were more likely to use telehealth than other patients during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General. The pandemic created new challenges for Medicare beneficiaries in accessing healthcare, and so
We clearly need a full, information-rich policy debate to discuss directly, openly and very explicitly how to functionally get the best and most effective value from each dollar we spend to fund Medicare.
Racial and ethnic minorities who are enrolled in Medicaid experience notably worse care experiences than their white counterparts, finds a new study published in Health Affairs. The research honed in on four key metrics: access to needed care, access to a personal doctor, timely access to a checkup or routine care, and timely access to specialty care. Racial and ethnic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hispanic Medicare patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were more likely to die than non-Hispanic white Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study led by researchers from the Department of Health Care Policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School. The analysis also found that existing pre-pandemic racial and ethnic disparities in