Table 5.

Comparison of Two State Insurance Variable Models for Late Stage BC

Outcome: whether the person diagnosed with late stage BC during 2000-2005.	State law: allow inpatient stay following mastectomy		State Law: any willing provider
Covariate	Coeff	P-val	Coeff	P-val
Person level
Person is dually eligible and/or has disability or end-stage renal disease	0.344	0.000	0.345	0.000
person is in the under age 65 category (versus 80+)	-0.114	0.000	-0.115	0.000
person is in the age65-79 category (versus 80+)	-0.129	0.000	-0.129	0.000
person is married	-0.119	0.000	-0.119	0.000
person is Black (versus white)	0.229	0.000	0.225	0.000
person is any other race or ethnicity (versus white)	-0.065	0.089	-0.090	0.020
Distance to closest mammography provider	0.003	0.073	0.003	0.061
County level
proportion of population in managed care health plans	-0.127	0.074	-0.162	0.017
proportion FFS population with BC screening	-0.019	0.000	-0.017	0.000
γ2: Isolation index of residential segregation: social support	-0.257	0.007	-0.107	0.123
State level
γ3: regulation requiring state insurance law or mandate (see column headings)	-0.251	0.004	-0.035	0.664
Cross-level interaction
γ4: Interaction of social support and state insurance variable	0.311	0.002	0.220	0.019
Goodness of Fit (AIC)*	137839.6		137843.4

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