Appendix Table A3.
Instrumental Variables (IV) analysis | ||
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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.