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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Forum Health Econ Policy. 2008;11(2):2. doi: 10.2202/1558-9544.1088

Table 5.

Impact of private insurance on quality and distance traveled

Transplant center attributes
Quality Distance
Baseline model
  Private 0.0044 [0.0039, 0.0049] 58.9 [58.2, 59.5]
  Medicare 0.0017 [0.0012, 0.0022] 50.7 [50.2, 51.3]
  Difference 0.0027 [0.0019, 0.0034] 8.1 [7.2, 9.0]
Recipeints only
  Private 0.0029 [0.0022, 0.0035] 55.4 [54.6, 56.2]
  Medicare 0.0004 [−0.0004, 0.0011] 48.1 [47.4, 48.8]
  Difference 0.0025 [0.0014, 0.0036] 7.3 [6.1, 8.4]
Mixed markets
  Private 0.0042 [0.0037, 0.0047] 56.4 [55.7, 57.0]
  Medicare 0.0012 [0.0007, 0.0017] 48.9 [48.4, 49.4]
  Difference 0.0030 [0.0022, 0.0038] 7.4 [6.6, 8.3]
Living donor recipients
  Private 0.0031 [0.0019, 0.0043] 55.7 [54.3, 57.2]
  Medicare 0.0010 [−0.0009, 0.0029] 49.1 [47.3, 50.9]
  Difference 0.0021 [−0.0002, 0.0045] 6.7 [4.3, 9.0]
Centers <120 miles
  Private 0.0038 [0.0033, 0.0043] 32.5 [32.2, 32.7]
  Medicare 0.0007 [0.0001, 0.0012] 30.8 [30.5, 31.0]
  Difference 0.0031 [0.0023, 0.0040] 1.7 [1.4, 2.1]

95% Confidence Intervals are in brackets.