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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2018 Feb 7;61:244–258. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.01.005

Table 7.

Effects of being treated in an integrated hospital-PAC pair vs. a non-integrated pair on length of stay in the first 60 days following hospital admission.

SNF
HHA
Total length of stay Hospital length of stay PAC length of stay Total length of stay Hospital length of stay PAC length of stay
Vertical integration 3.90***
(3.42)		 −0.74***
(−2.70)		 4.64***
(4.13)		 −1.07*
(−1.95)		 −0.10
(−1.28)		 −0.96*
(−1.78)
N of discharges 2,651,748 2,651,748 2,651,748 1,318,577 1,318,577 1,318,577
N of provider pairs 87,440 87,440 87,440 56,093 56,093 56,093
Informal integration −0.76**
(−2.09)		 −0.14
(−1.48)		 −0.62*
(−1.78)		 −0.41
(−1.43)		 −0.02
(−0.48)		 −0.39
(−1.35)
N of discharges 2,651,748 2,651,748 2,651,748 1,318,577 1,318,577 1,318,577
N of provider pairs 87,440 87,440 87,440 56,093 56,093 56,093

Note: Regression includes all the covariates reported in Table 3, a full set of DRG controls, hospital-PAC-pair fixed effects, and year fixed effects.

Robust t-statistics in parentheses.

*

p < .10,

**

p < .05,

***

p < .01.