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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2009 Oct;47(10):1069–1076. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181a80fef

Table 3.

Mean monthly service-specific expenditures relative to FFS program: U.S. working age Supplemental Security Income/Medicaid beneficiaries, 1996 – 2004

Logit
(β)[se]
GLM
(β)[se]
Average Partial
Effect ($)[95%CI]

MMCO
Total .22 [.27] −.17 [.18] −76 [−195, 48]
Inpatient −.42 [.31] .35 [.31] −32 [−203, 118]
Prescription Medications .24 [.27] .13 [.17] 25 [8, 44]
Outpatient .11 [.18] −.26 [.20] −22 [−56, 13]
Home health −1.2 [.63] .34 [.48] −37 [−81, 4]
Emergency Department −.59 [.25] * .32 [.24] −3 [−13, 6]
Other Medical .21 [.26] .51[.35] 6 [2, 10]
Dental .31[.33] 1.04 [.28] * 6 [2, 10]
VMCO
Total .24 [.30] .05 [.18] 43 [−87, 173]
Inpatient −.02 [.26] −.04 [.27] −10 [−138, 117]
Prescription Medications .10 [.28] .15 [.17] 24 [8, 41]
Outpatient .03 [.16] −.25 [.18] −28 [−59, 4]
Home health .18 [.60] .33 [.26] 28 [−1, 57]
Emergency Department −.11 [.23] .11 [.22] −0.30 [−8, 8]
Other Medical .28 [.25] 1.05 [.24] * 11 [7, 15]
Dental .38 [.31] .63 [.24] * 4 [1, 8]
*

Significantly different from Fee-for-Service (FFS), p <= 0.05

Adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, personal income, marital status, family size, employed in past 12 months, self-reported physical and mental health status, activity limitations, metropolitan statistical area, presence of mandatory Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan (PHP), mandatory Primary Care Case Management (PCCM), county HMO penetration rate (1998), percentage of households that receive SSI in county (1999), percentage of county residents 25 years & older with HS/GED education (2000), lagged % living in poverty, and lagged active MDs in the county, state, year.