Figure. Unadjusted Rates and Absolute Differences for Ambulatory Care Access and Quality in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare by Race and Ethnicity, Minority vs White or Multiracial, 2015-2018.

Minority Medicare Advantage beneficiaries were 11.1% of the total; minority traditional Medicare beneficiaries, 9.8%; White or multiracial Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, 31.5%; and White or multiracial traditional Medicare beneficiaries, 47.6%.

^aUnweighted sample sizes of patients who met baseline study inclusion and exclusion criteria as listed in Table 1 and responded to Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey questions for outcome variables.

^bFecal occult blood test at home or in physician’s office or colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy within the past 5 years, excluding patients who self-reported having colon cancer or were younger than 45 years.