Table 3.
Racial and ethnic disparities in meeting 2010 eligibility criteria for medication therapy management services based on a logistic regression model (main analysis)*
| Estimate | Standard Error |
Wald Chi- Square |
P | Odds Ratio (OR) |
95% Confidence Interval for Odds Ratio |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intercept | −4.01 | 0.94 | 18.00 | <.0001 | - | - |
| Non-Hispanic Whites | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-Hispanic Blacks | −0.49 | 0.11 | 21.43 | <.0001 | 0.61 | 0.50–0.75 |
| Hispanics | −0.44 | 0.13 | 11.66 | 0.0006 | 0.65 | 0.50–0.83 |
| Age (Years) | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.47 | 0.4945 | 1.01 | 0.98–1.05 |
| Female | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Male | −0.33 | 0.09 | 15.38 | <.0001 | 0.72 | 0.61–0.85 |
| Not married | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Married | −0.05 | 0.07 | 0.45 | 0.5011 | 0.95 | 0.83–1.10 |
| Lower than High School | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| High School | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.55 | 0.4564 | 1.06 | 0.92–1.22 |
| Higher than High School | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.25 | 0.619 | 1.05 | 0.87–1.25 |
| 100% FPL | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 100%–149% FPL† | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.04 | 0.834 | 1.03 | 0.81–1.30 |
| 150–199% FPL | −0.12 | 0.10 | 1.28 | 0.2571 | 0.89 | 0.72–1.09 |
| 200%–300% FPL | 0.22 | 0.12 | 3.20 | 0.0737 | 1.25 | 0.98–1.59 |
| Higher than 300% FPL | 0.22 | 0.13 | 3.00 | 0.0831 | 1.25 | 0.97–1.61 |
| Non-Medicaid | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Medicaid | 0.56 | 0.17 | 10.36 | 0.0013 | 1.75 | 1.25–2.46 |
| Northeast | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midwest | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.6814 | 1.04 | 0.87–1.25 |
| South | 0.12 | 0.09 | 1.55 | 0.2134 | 1.13 | 0.94–1.35 |
| West | −0.33 | 0.09 | 12.37 | 0.0004 | 0.72 | 0.60–0.86 |
| Non-MSA†† | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| MSA | −0.15 | 0.08 | 3.76 | 0.0524 | 0.87 | 0.75–1.00 |
| Excellent Self-Perceived Health Status | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Very Good Self-Perceived Health Status | 0.86 | 0.11 | 66.95 | <.0001 | 2.36 | 1.92–2.90 |
| Good Self-Perceived Health Status | 1.51 | 0.11 | 203.79 | <.0001 | 4.52 | 3.67–5.56 |
| Fair Self-Perceived Health Status | 2.18 | 0.11 | 375.19 | <.0001 | 8.88 | 7.12–11.07 |
| Poor Self-Perceived Health Status | 2.31 | 0.12 | 360.33 | <.0001 | 10.05 | 7.92–12.76 |
| Risk Adjustment Summary Score | 0.78 | 0.93 | 0.71 | 0.3982 | 2.19 | 0.36–13.43 |
*
Eligibility thresholds examined: 5 drugs, 3 chronic conditions, and $3,000 in drug costs. Wald's statistic: 1159.44 (P<0.0001).
†
FPL=Federal Poverty Level.
††
MSA=Metropolitan Statistical Area.