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. 2014 Feb 12;4(1):mmrr2014.004.01.a03. doi: 10.5600/mmrr2014-004-01-a03

Exhibit 3. Descriptive Statistics Comparing Agencies With and Without QMs.

Analysis Sample
Agencies with QMs Agencies without QMs
For-Profit Non-Profit For-Profit Non-Profit
Number of agencies 3,349 564 3,015 136
Total annual expenditures (in millions of $) 3.401 6.230 0.850 0.811
Standard Deviation (5.701) (7.718) (0.716) (1.051)
Median [2.170] [3.739] [0.672] [0.539]
Unduplicated patients 890 2,434 169 241
Standard Deviation (1,160) (3,424) (202) (315)
Median [550] [1,260] [118] [145]
Wage index (range 0.69–1.67) 0.97 1.00 0.98 0.95
Standard Deviation (0.14) (0.16) (0.11) (0.13)
HHRG case-mix index (range 0.58–3.49) 1.372 1.255 1.298 1.200
Standard Deviation (0.234) (0.168) (0.308) (0.257)
Proportion Medicare patients (range 0–1) 0.760 0.564 0.843 0.603
Standard Deviation (0.228) (0.184) (0.246) (0.273)
Proportion LUPA episodes (range 0–1) 0.077 0.130 0.045 0.113
Standard Deviation (0.045) (0.048) (0.049) (0.112)
Proportion PEP episodes (range 0–1) 0.034 0.035 0.039 0.041
Standard Deviation (0.023) (0.019) (0.047) (0.091)
Skilled nursing contract (yes = 1) 0.395 0.472 0.478 0.353
Home aide contract (yes = 1) 0.214 0.298 0.301 0.228
Occupational therapy contract (yes = 1) 0.755 0.598 0.762 0.662
Physical therapy contract (yes = 1) 0.852 0.725 0.879 0.816
Speech therapy contract (yes = 1) 0.721 0.606 0.577 0.632
Years with Medicare certification 11.19 25.87 5.58 16.90
Standard Deviation (8.45) (13.89) (5.62) (12.91)
Agency is chain affiliated (yes = 1) 0.348 0.424 0.066 0.316
Agency is small agency (yes = 1) 0.006 0.011 0.046 0.044
Proportion of patients with improvement in health status (range 0–1) 0.533 0.544
Standard Deviation (0.103) (0.07)
Proportion of patients who received treatment (range 0–1) 0.801 0.797
Standard Deviation (0.08) (0.089)
Proportion of patients who were assessed (range 0–1) 0.72 0.726
Standard Deviation (0.062) (0.061)
Proportion of patients who were hospitalized (range 0–1) 0.306 0.265
Standard Deviation (0.084) (0.066)

NOTE: We report means with standard deviations in parenthesis. We report medians in square brackets for variables that have a highly skewed distribution. Standard deviations are not shown for dichotomous variables.

SOURCE: Authors’ calculations.