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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2018 Jul 26;61:111–133. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.06.012

Table 8.

Changes in quality outcomes.

Arthroscopy Cataract Colonoscopy



(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
ASC HOPD ASC HOPD ASC HOPD

Post × ln(CalPERS exposure) 0.000245 −0.00397 0.00227 0.0125 −0.00178 −0.00428*
(0.00177) (0.00371) (0.00430) (0.0118) (0.00113) (0.00218)
2010 −0.00118 −0.00312 0.00583 0.0191** 0.00224*** 0.000294
(0.00150) (0.00260) (0.00354) (0.00725) (0.000800) (0.00178)
2011 −0.00192 −0.00107 0.0106** 0.0157** 0.00247** 0.00145
(0.00196) (0.00296) (0.00483) (0.00607) (0.00107) (0.00168)
2012 −0.00178 0.00188 0.00882 0.00879 0.00315** 0.00586**
(0.00272) (0.00385) (0.00577) (0.00638) (0.00125) (0.00276)
2013 −0.00124 0.00168 0.0119* 0.00835 0.00151 0.00462*
(0.00278) (0.00410) (0.00607) (0.00776) (0.00117) (0.00257)
Observations 46,696 21,880 20,065 5845 224,469 86,586
Number of providers 325 246 239 158 414 275
Number of markets 108 108 110 79 117 114
Adjusted R2 0.059 0.087 0.005 0.029 0.019 0.030
Mean complication rate 0.013 0.016 0.028 0.039 0.019 0.032

This table presents the results from Eq. (1). The dependent variable in all columns is the probability of having a surgical complication and each regression is estimated using OLS. Controls for month, patient age, gender, Charlson comorbidity score, indicators for 17 chronic conditions, and patient HRR fixed effects are included but not reported. Robust standard errors clustered at the Hospital Service Area level are in parentheses.

***

p < 0.01.

**

p < 0.05.

*

p < 0.1.