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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2019 Jan 29;28(4):517–528. doi: 10.1002/hec.3860

Appendix Table A3.

Results from the sensitivity checks

Instrumental Variables (IV) analysis
Estimate (Robust Standard Error)
Outcomes % of visits integrated
oncologists
Including patients who
died during the year
Utilization
Log(Frequency of chemotherapy drug claims) −0.08(0.03)*** −0.07(0.03)**
Log (Frequency of chemotherapy administration claims) −0.06(0.03)** −0.06(0.03)**
Spending ($)
Log Chemotherapy drug spending) 0.19(0.06)*** 0.19(0.05)***
Log(Chemotherapy administration spending) 0.09(0.05)* 0.07(0.04)*
Treatment mix
Log(Chemotherapy drug spending per claim) 0.27(0.05)*** 0.26(0.04)***
First-Stage Statistics
Estimate on instrument (Robust Standard Error) 0.66(0.01)*** 0.70(0.01)***
F-Statistic 3,993 4,067
    N 81,899 101,622

Notes: Oncologist fixed effects are included. Covariates controlled for in all models are patient demographic characteristics, chronic condition indicators, cancer type, metastasis indicator, and ZIP-level socio-economic variables; Spending measures are adjusted to 2013 dollars; Standard errors account for clustering by practice in all models;

Integration is measured by the share of total visits to an integrated oncologist;

This sample is different from the primary analysis, which requires the patients to have full-year enrollment in both Part A and Part B;

*

p < 0.10,

**

p < 0.05,

***

p < 0.01.