Table 2.

Characteristics of Older Dual-Eligible Federally Qualified Health Center Users and Geographically-Matched Nonusers

	FQHC Users	Nonusers
N (person-years)	470,905	3,442,086
Mean Age, y (SD)	75.38* (7.16)	77.89 (7.77)
% Male	31.75*	29.47
% Metropolitan	70.62*	85.32
Race
% White	56.01*	57.42
% Black	20.61*	19.03
% Other Race	23.39*	23.54
Region
% Northeast	18.46*	15.94
% Midwest	13.32*	18.44
% South	35.92*	36.51
% West	32.30*	29.11
% Originally Medicare-Eligible Due to Disability	20.82*	18.14
Mean Number of Chronic Conditions1 (SD)	4.55* (2.66)	4.92 (2.92)
Mean Number of Annual All-Cause Hospitalizations (SD)	0.42* (1.03)	0.47 (1.09)
Mean Number of Annual Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations (SD)	0.10* (0.42)	0.11 (0.44)
Mean Number of Annual Emergency Department Visits (SD)	0.95* (1.97)	0.83 (1.68)
Mean Number of Annual Ambulatory Care Sensitive Emergency Department Visits (SD)	0.18* (0.64)	0.16 (0.56)

¹Includes a count of 26 different conditions from the Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse.

Note: Differences between FQHC Users and Nonusers were determined by two-sample t-tests for continuous variables and Pearson Chi-Squared tests for categorical variables. A *indicates a statistically significant (p<0.01) difference between groups.