Table 1.

Within‐hospital disparities by dual eligibility for AMI, heart failure, and pneumonia readmission

	AMI	Heart failure	Pneumonia
Hospitalizations
All	501 429	1 162 288	1 475 989
Percentage duals	14.3%	18.7%	24.6%
Observed readmission rates
Overall	16.84%	21.93%	17.08%
Duals	21.70%	25.21%	19.38%
Non‐duals	16.03%	21.18%	16.33%
Disparity odds ratio
Duals vs Non‐duals	1.09 (P‐value <0.0001)	1.07 (P‐value <0.0001)	1.05 (P‐value <0.0001)
Median hospital level absolute rate difference (Interquartile range)
Duals vs Non‐duals	1.12% (1.09%‐1.19%)	1.10% (1.02%‐1.20%)	0.60% (0.41%‐0.83%)
Variance of the hospital‐specific disparity effect
Dual eligibility model	0.006 (P‐value = 0.177)	0.004 (P‐value = 0.067)	0.011 (P‐value <0.0001)

AMI, acute myocardial infarction.