Table 2.
Regression Results of 30‐day Rehospitalization Risk among New SNF Patients in 2011: Effect of 2009–2010 Adjusted Rehospitalization Rates of the Treating Hospital and SNF
| Variables | 30‐day Rehospitalization | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | |
| Treated in a SNF in quartile 2 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.0143*** (12.14) | 0.0166*** (14.36) | |
| Treated in a SNF in quartile 3 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.0262*** (21.54) | 0.0311*** (26.38) | |
| Treated in a SNF in quartile 4 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.0418*** (31.59) | 0.0493*** (39.24) | |
| Treated in a hospital in quartile 2 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.00670*** (4.988) | 0.0133*** (10.10) | |
| Treated in a hospital in quartile 3 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.0151*** (11.31) | 0.0256*** (19.83) | |
| Treated in a hospital in quartile 4 of ARR in 2009–2010 | 0.0259*** (17.10) | 0.0415*** (28.76) | |
| Observations | 946,822 | 946,822 | 946,822 |
| R 2 | 0.0514 | 0.0503 | 0.0511 |
| Residual sum of squares | 145,822.94 | 145,990.80 | 145,877.74 |
All the models adjust for patient's clinical and demographic characteristics, hospitalization DRG fixed effects, hospitalization month fixed effects, and HRR fixed effects. Errors are clustered by HRR.
*** implies statistically significant at 1% level.