Table 4.

Comparison of Two State Insurance Variable Models for Late Stage CRC

Outcome: whether person was diagnosed with late stage colorectal cancer during 2000-2005.	state law: continuity of care		state law: plan report card
Covariate	Coeff	P-val	Coeff	P-val
Person level variables
female (versus male)	0.042	0.001	0.042	0.001
under age 65 category(versus 80+)	-0.062	0.028	-0.062	0.027
age65-79 category (versus 80+)	-0.043	0.002	-0.043	0.002
married	-0.080	0.000	-0.081	0.000
Black (versus white)	0.125	0.000	0.127	0.000
any other race or ethnicity (versus white)	0.062	0.013	0.063	0.011
Distance to closest endoscopy provider	0.004	0.005	0.005	0.004
County level variables
proportion population in managed care health plans	0.324	0.000	0.303	0.000
proportion Medicare FFS population with CRC screening	-0.012	0.134	-0.012	0.152
γ2: proportion vulnerable cancer population (dual, disabled, ESRD)	1.090	0.018	0.846	0.004
proportion of census population age 80+	0.567	0.262	0.621	0.193
State level variables
Years that elapsed before a CCC plan was implemented in state	0.021	0.254	0.033	0.004
γ3: regulation requiring state law or mandate (see column headings)	0.192	0.071	0.320	0.001
Cross-level interaction
γ4 : Interaction of vulnerable county proportion and state law or	-0.961	0.005	-0.976	0.006
Goodness of Fit (AIC)*	146153.0		146149.2

^*Goodness of Fit provided by re-estimation using SAS GLIMMX procedure