Appendix Table A.1.
Basic Risk Adjustment Model
| One-Year Survival | One-Year Expenditures | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Coefficient | Coefficient | |
| Vascular Disease | 0.070 | −0.028 (0.001) |
1658 (55) |
| Pulmonary Conditions | 0.187 | −0.081 (0.001) |
1368 (37) |
| Dementia | 0.026 | −0.135 (0.002) |
−4919 (84) |
| Diabetes | 0.246 | −0.039 (0.001) |
1948 (33) |
| Liver Disease | 0.003 | −0.240 (0.005) |
−2019 (269) |
| Renal Disease | 0.024 | −0.278 (0.002) |
1256 (94) |
| Cancer | 0.042 | −0.164 (0.001) |
−2716 (70) |
| Location of MI | |||
| Anterolateral | 0.042 | −0.003 (0.002) |
685 (122) |
| Anterior Wall | 0.165 | 0.033 (0.002) |
1117 (107) |
| Inferolateral | 0.029 | 0.062 (0.002) |
331 (130) |
| Inferior Posterior | 0.021 | 0.073 (0.002) |
1033 (140) |
| Inferior Wall | 0.178 | 0.102 (0.002) |
333 (106) |
| Lateral (NEC) | 0.021 | 0.066 (0.003) |
−114 (139) |
| True Posterior | 0.007 | 0.073 (0.004) |
825 (194) |
| Sub-Endocardial | 0.414 | 0.119 (0.002) |
2092 (103) |
| AMI (NEC) | 0.022 | — | — |
| AMI (NOS) | 0.100 | −0.093 (0.002) |
−1783 (111) |
| Constant (for non-black male age 65–69 | 0.733 (0.004) |
24308 (166) |
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| Age-Sex-Race-Year Categorical Variables | Yes | Yes | |
| Sample Size | 3,185,837 | 2,808,171 | 2,808,170 |
Note. Standard error of estimate in parentheses. Coefficients are from a patient-level regression of survival or expenditures that also included hospital-year fixed effects, using Medicare claims data from 1986–2004.