Table 2. Average of Plan Means by the Plan's Primary Federal Region: Year 3.

Federal Region	Number of Plans in Region	Doctor	Specialist	Health Care	Health Plan
Northeast	23	9.075	9.031	9.15	8.737
North Mid-Atlantic	39	8.878	8.738	8.885	8.352
Mid-Atlantic	31	9.023	8.967	9.059	8.683
South Atlantic	64	8.862	8.845	8.881	8.639
East Mid-West	55	8.874	8.859	8.982	8.656
Southwest	42	8.809	8.858	8.871	8.614
Mid-West	16	8.807	8.789	8.925	8.704
Mountain	13	8.771	8.761	8.911	8.621
Pacific	57	8.657	8.56	8.673	8.535
Northwest	27	8.756	8.827	8.93	8.682
Significance Level		***12.61	***11.41	***15.34	**3.24

^***PR>F is 0.0001.

^**PR>F is 0.001.

SOURCE: (Zaslavsky, A.M., Landon, B.E., Beaulieu, N.D. and Cleary, P.D., 2000.)