Racial Concordance on Healthcare Use within Hispanic Population Subgroups

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Objective: To examine the association of patient-provider racial and ethnic concordance on healthcare use within Hispanic ethnic subgroups. Methods: We estimate multivariate probit models using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the only national data source measuring how patients use and pay for medical care, health insurance, and out-of-pocket spending. We collect and utilize data on preventive care visits, visits for new health problems, and visits for ongoing health problems from survey years 2007–2017 to measure health outcomes. Additionally, we include data on race and ethnicity concordance, non-health-related socioeconomic and demographic factors, health-related characteristics, provider communication characteristics, and provider location characteristics in the analysis. The sample includes 59,158 observations: 74.3% identified as Mexican, 10.6% identified as Puerto Rican, 5.1% identified as Cuban, 4.8% identified as Dominican, and 5.2% classified in the survey as Other Hispanics. Foreign-born respondents comprised 56% of the sample. A total of 8% (4678) of cases in the sample involved Hispanic provider-patient concordance. Results: Hispanic patient-provider concordance is statistically significant and positively associated with higher probabilities of seeking preventive care (coef=.211, P

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Ma, A., Campbell, J., Sanchez, A., Sumner, S., & Ma, M. (2024). Racial Concordance on Healthcare Use within Hispanic Population Subgroups. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11(4), 2329–2337. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01700-8

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