The organizations, which included the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, NAACP, Aetna and a variety of health professional and minority health associations, said “For health care reform to truly succeed, every person — regardless of race or ethnicity — must be afforded equal access to quality care.”
The letter establishes three priorities for eliminating those gaps. They include providing incentives for healthcare providers to achieve greater continuity of care; funding pay for performance initiatives designed to assess care Medicare providers to minorities; expanding the healthcare work force providing healthcare coverage and access to care for all Americas.
To read the letter, click here (pdf).
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