Table 1.

Clinicians’ and Panel Characteristics, 2014

		Clinicians receiving:
	Control	Single median price	Paired internal/external median prices
All clinicians, N	407	396	402
Per clinician:	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	p-value*
Total unique patients	731 (670)	767 (671)	813 (684)	0.22
Patient panel characteristics
Mean age in years	45 (14)	46 (14)	46 (13)	0.74
Percent female	65 (23)	65 (23)	64 (22)	0.80
Percent white	78 (17)	78 (17)	77 (17)	0.95
Percent commercially insured	72 (14)	71 (14)	72 (13)	0.50
Mean number of chronic conditions†	0.51 (0.47)	0.48 (0.42)	0.53 (0.45)	0.29
Total orders	172 (229)	206 (273)	201 (241)	0.88
Total face-to-face encounters	1174 (1105)	1218 (1093)	1313 (1147)	0.19

*One-way analysis of variance

†Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Chronic Condition Indicator (CCI) for ICD-9-CM.³²