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Provider Network Structure and Black-to-White Disparity Gaps for Medicare Patients with Diabetes: County-Level Analysis of Cost, Utilization, and Clinical Care.

Sebastian LindeLeonard E Egede
Published in: Journal of general internal medicine (2021)
Network structures where PCPs are more central relative to medical and surgical specialists are associated with reduced non-Hispanic black-to-white disparity gaps, suggesting that how we organize and structure our health systems has implications for disparity gaps between non-Hispanic black and white Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • affordable care act
  • type diabetes
  • cardiovascular disease
  • primary care
  • palliative care
  • quality improvement
  • metabolic syndrome
  • insulin resistance