Dr. Arnab Ghosh awarded Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Award

Arnab Ghosh, MD , a member of  the Cornell Center for Health Equity, was awarded the Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Award in the amount of $50,000 for one year, to investigate the influence of value-based payment models on racial and socioeconomic disparities in hospitalized patients.

The Affordable Care Act of 2011 created new models called Value-Based Payment Models (VBPMs) to manage healthcare costs while maintaining quality. The project’s long-term objective is to illuminate the unknown but manifold effects of VBPMs on healthcare disparities. The project’s specific aim seeks to explore VBPMs in the hospital setting: first, through the examination of large datasets to detect differences in healthcare outcomes between patients of different races/ethnicities and income levels.