Table 8.

Multinomial Logit: Type of Contract Model

	General Contract		CABG-specific Contract
	Coefficients	Std Errors	Coefficients	Std Errors
Hospital Salary per FTE	−0.246	0.188	−0.818**	0.259
Hospital Quality	2.588**	0.941	1.391	1.186
Distance	−0.053**	0.009	−0.021**	0.010
HMO Competition	2.990**	1.210	−0.029	1.329
Hospital Competition	−3.132**	1.118	0.254	1.648
High HMO Penetration	−0.300	0.393	−0.640	0.448
For-profit HMO	1.546**	0.353	−0.054	0.485
Large HMO	1.231**	0.362	2.076**	0.507
IPA	0.049	0.393	0.677	0.543
Network	0.654	0.457	0.672	0.642
Public Hospital	−0.270	0.498	0.581	0.550
For-profit Hospital	−0.922**	0.402	0.236	0.529
Hospital Beds	−0.00056	0.00061	0.00227**	0.00063
COTH	0.462	0.389	0.171	0.456
Constant	0.891	1.151	0.310	1.530

Pseudo R2=0.2656

n = 439

^*p <.10.

^**p <.05.