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To examine how Affordable Care Act mandates for non-profit hospital community health assessments can leverage interest-convergence theory to reduce persistent racial health disparities.

January 1, 2016Michigan Journal of Race & LawOpen Access

Black Health Matters: Disparities, Community Health, and Interest Convergence

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MCMary CrossleyUniversity of Pittsburgh

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Policy analysis reveals economic incentives for reducing health disparities in racial minority communities, highlighting opportunities to align hospital financial interests with racial health justice.

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To examine how Affordable Care Act mandates for non-profit hospital community health assessments can leverage interest-convergence theory to reduce persistent racial health disparities.
Examined Affordable Care Act regulations requiring tax-exempt hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments and adopt implementation strategies.
Applied Derrick Bell's legal framework of interest convergence to evaluate intersections between hospital financial performance and racial health equity.
Reviewed initial hospital compliance reports and evaluated dual-benefit intervention models aimed at cutting hospital expenditures while closing health gaps.
Preliminary compliance data indicate that most tax-exempt hospitals failed to address racial health disparities in their initial community health needs assessments.
Identified two intervention case studies demonstrating that targeted racial equity initiatives can directly decrease hospital costs and reduce avoidable utilization.

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Mary Crossley (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaa4ed9e00150b4b5083d69 https://doi.org/10.36643/mjrl.22.1.black

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