TABLE 3 ] .
Costs per Insurance Group | FS-ICU (n = 302) | QODD-1 (n = 292) | ||||
No. | β (95% CI) | P Value | No. | β (95% CI) | P Value | |
Average ICU cost per dayb | ||||||
Private/Medicare | 236 | −1.0 (−4.0, 2.0) | .50 | 228 | −0.0 (−0.6, 0.5) | .85 |
Underinsured | 66 | 9.1 (3.9, 14.2) | < .01 | 64 | 1.4 (0.4, 2.3) | .01 |
Total ICU costb | ||||||
Private/Medicare | 236 | −0.1 (−1.2, 1.0) | .90 | 228 | −0.0 (−0.3, 0.2) | .70 |
Underinsured | 66 | −1.1 (−4.7, 2.6) | .56 | 64 | −0.2 (−0.9, 0.4) | .50 |
Total hospital costb | ||||||
Private/Medicare | 236 | −0.2 (−1.4, 1.0) | .79 | 228 | −0.0 (−0.3, 0.2) | .72 |
Underinsured | 66 | −1.2 (−4.6, 2.3) | .50 | 64 | −0.3 (−0.9, 0.3) | .31 |
See Table 2 legend for expansion of abbreviations.
All are fully interacted models that included level and interaction terms for intervention (pre/post), hospital, patient age, and patient insurance status (underinsured vs private/Medicare).
Cost variable of interest has been log transformed and adjusted for inflation and so that all costs were compared at the 2013 US dollar value.