Racial and Ethnic Differences in Managed Care Enrollment Among US Children

Alon Peltz; Kristin Kan; Arvin Garg; Alexander Pomerantz; Lucy A Bilaver; Matthew M Davis

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.4162

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Managed Care Enrollment Among US Children

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Apr 1;4(4):e214162. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.4162.

Authors

Alon Peltz^{1

2}, Kristin Kan^{3

4}, Arvin Garg⁵, Alexander Pomerantz⁶, Lucy A Bilaver^{3

4}, Matthew M Davis^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
⁴ Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.
⁶ Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This survey study uses data from the 2018 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component to compare rates of health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollment, by race and ethnicity, for children with commercial and public coverage.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Ethnicity*
Healthcare Disparities / economics
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Managed Care Programs*
Racial Groups*
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding