Objective. Little is known about why black patients and other ethnic/racial minorities are less
likely to receive the best treatments independent of clinical appropriateness, payer, and
treatment site. Although both provider and patient behavior have been suggested as
possible explanatory factors, the potential role of provider behavior has remained largely
unexplored. Does provider behavior contribute to systematic inequities? If so, why? The
purpose of this paper is to build on existing evidence to provide an integrated, coherent, and …