Table 2.
Means of Variables by State and Categories of Hospitalization, 1997
| NY | PA | WI | TN | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults, Aged 20–64 | Preventable | Marker | Preventable | Marker | Preventable | Marker | Preventable | Marker |
| Number of admissions | 148,299 | 20,449 | 94,812 | 14,591 | 28,071 | 5,408 | 48,495 | 6,945 |
| Admissions per 1,000 adult population | 13.8 | 1.90 | 13.6 | 2.10 | 9.33 | 1.79 | 15.04 | 2.15 |
| Patient Insurance (%) | ||||||||
| Medicaid FFS | 33.18 | 15.98 | 18.85 | 11.66 | 12.74 | 4.40 | 0 | 0 |
| Medicaid HMO | 1.94 | 0.924 | 4.69 | 1.65 | 1.62 | 0.536 | 29.46 | 17.88 |
| Self-pay | 9.75 | 10.57 | 3.95 | 3.48 | 7.74 | 8.04 | 4.74 | 6.42 |
| Private HMO | 12.73 | 22.32 | 18.15 | 23.34 | 25.31 | 33.28 | 16.11 | 24.00 |
| Commercial and other | 27.69 | 40.00 | 33.75 | 45.42 | 34.31 | 43.99 | 28.51 | 37.39 |
| Patient Characteristics | ||||||||
| Patient severity score (RDSCALE) [1] | 0.99 | 1.80 | 1.03 | 2.14 | 0.996 | 1.84 | 1.01 | 2.38 |
| African American (%) | 28.37 | 12.6 | 21.8 | 9.12 | 15.45 | 5.41 | 24.22 | 15.27 |
| Hispanics (%) | 12.23 | 9.04 | 3.55 | 2.79 | 2.38 | 1.94 | 0.22 | 0.37 |
| Age group 20–44 (%) | 42.63 | 41.17 | 39.12 | 37.12 | 43.23 | 45.41 | 39.74 | 35.14 |
| Male (%) | 46.22 | 57.50 | 45.55 | 56.39 | 45.7 | 56.19 | 43.21 | 56.64 |
| Transfer patients (%) | 2.14 | 9.42 | 2.67 | 11.95 | 2.18 | 6.23 | 2.12 | 8.25 |
| From ER (%) | 74.24 | 71.8 | 66.41 | 67.16 | 56.66 | 61.05 | 59.67 | 67.31 |
| County Characteristics | ||||||||
| Metro area (%) | 93.43 | 92.38 | 86.01 | 84.92 | 69.96 | 65.77 | 63.77 | 65.96 |
| Nonadjacent area (%) | 2.08 | 2.12 | 1.96 | 1.98 | 7.65 | 7.65 | 15.52 | 13.59 |
| From NYC (%) | 53.39 | 38.64 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Median County Income ($1,000s) | 35.198 | 37.893 | 34.401 | 35.886 | 38.114 | 38.898 | 31.905 | 32.212 |
| Hospital Characteristics | ||||||||
| Mean distance to hospital (in miles) | 5.96 | 8.71 | 7.39 | 10.19 | 11.61 | 13.73 | 13.29 | 18.17 |
| In teaching hospital (%) | 41.52 | 43.52 | 31.64 | 30.42 | 23.13 | 16.54 | 7.20 | 5.44 |
| County Resources | ||||||||
| Primary care physicians per 1,000 population | 0.738 | 0.7458 | 0.589 | 0.586 | 0.6208 | 0.611 | 0.567 | 0.576 |
| Inpatient days per capita | 1.24 | 1.088 | 1.04 | 0.953 | 0.731 | 0.7045 | 0.877 | 0.861 |
| Specialists per 1,000 population | 1.47 | 1.47 | 1.16 | 1.11 | 0.95 | 0.90 | 1.04 | 1.05 |
| Outpatient visits per capita | 2.53 | 2.44 | 2.62 | 2.52 | 2.11 | 2.01 | 1.82 | 1.75 |
1
A predicted charge defined in the text, measured in hundredths of a percent, across all DRGs nationally.
Note: Denominators of means for all variables are statewide admissions in the respective category of hospitalization.