TY  - JOUR
T1  - INsurance parity and outpatient care following a psychiatric hospitalization—reply
AU  - Trivedi AN, Swaminathan S, Mor V
Y1  - 2009/05/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.634
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1880
EP  - 1881
VL  - 301
IS  - 18
N2  - 
In Reply:  Mr Lee and Dr Xiong raise the important issue of the association of race with follow-up care after a psychiatric hospitalization. In our sample of Medicare managed care enrollees hospitalized for a mental illness from 2002 to 2006, black enrollees were significantly less likely than white enrollees to receive timely follow-up mental health care after discharge. Thirty-day follow-up rates were 57% for white enrollees compared with 45% for black enrollees (P < .001). This result is consistent with other studies of racial disparities in the quality of care for Medicare managed care enrollees.1- 2

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.634
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.634
ER  -