Demand and Supply Drivers of Medicare and Non-Medicare Health Spending: An Analysis of U.S. States, 1991-2019.

For the last four decades, policymakers have attempted to control the United States's high health care costs by reducing patients' for care (e.g., by imposing managed-care restrictions or high costs on patients at the time of use).

Hospitals That Serve Many Black Patients Have Lower Revenues and Profits: Structural Racism in Hospital Financing.

Background: Care for Black patients is concentrated at a relatively small proportion of all US hospitals. Some previous studies have documented quality deficits at Black-serving hospitals, which may be due to inequities in financial resources for care.

Objective: To assess disparities in funding between hospitals associated with the proportion of Black patients that they serve.

Examination of Stigmatizing Language in the Electronic Health Record.

Importance: Stigmatizing language in the electronic health record (EHR) may alter treatment plans, transmit biases between clinicians, and alienate patients. However, neither the frequency of stigmatizing language in hospital notes, nor whether clinicians disproportionately use it in describing patients in particular demographic subgroups are known.

Objective: To examine the prevalence of stigmatizing language in hospital admission notes and the patient and clinician characteristics associated with the use of such language.

Alternatives to intensive treatment in patients with AML.

A significant proportion of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are unable to tolerate standard induction chemotherapy regimens. This is particularly true for patients who are of advanced age, have a poor performance status, and/or have significant medical comorbidities. Recent advances in understanding the genetic and molecular properties of AML have led to a spate of new treatment options for patients considered ineligible for standard chemotherapy.

Association of Eviction With Adverse Birth Outcomes Among Women in Georgia, 2000 to 2016.

Importance: More than 2 million families face eviction annually, a number likely to increase due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The association of eviction with newborns' health remains to be examined.

Objective: To determine the association of eviction actions during pregnancy with birth outcomes.

Inequality Set in Concrete: Physical Resources Available for Care at Hospitals Serving People of Color and Other U.S. Hospitals.

Racial inequities in health outcomes are widely acknowledged. This study seeks to determine whether hospitals serving people of color in the United States have lesser physical assets than other hospitals. With data on 4,476 Medicare-participating hospitals in the United States, we defined those in the top decile of the share of black and Hispanic Medicare inpatients as "black-serving" and "Hispanic-serving," respectively.

Effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansions on Food Security, 2010-2016.

To examine whether the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) decreased the prevalence of severe food insecurity. With data on adult respondents to the Food Security Supplement to the Current Population Survey in US states for the years 2010 to 2013 and 2015 to 2016, I used a difference-in-difference design to compare trends in very low food security (VLFS) among low-income childless adults in states that did and did not expand Medicaid in 2014 under the ACA. Among low-income, nonelderly childless adults, VLFS rose from 17.