Table 4.

Differences in Annual Medicare Care Utilization Per Person between Less Favorable CVH and All Favorable (N = 158,306)

	Acute Inpatient			Post-acute Inpatient			Ambulatory Care	Home health
	No. of Admissions	Length of Stay		No. of Admissions	Length of Stay		No. of Visits	No. of Visits
Panel A: Overall
All Favorable (ref. mean)	0.19	0.91		0.04	0.97		14.57	1.41
Marginal effect from ref.; Mean [SE]
1+ Elevated, None High	0.04***	0.29***		0.006**	0.15		0.80	0.56**
	(0.01)	(0.09)		(0.003)	(0.12)		(0.46)	(0.24)
1 High	0.09***	0.63***		0.01***	0.30**		1.40***	0.93***
	(0.01)	(0.09)		(0.003)	(0.12)		(0.44)	(0.22)
2 + High	0.15***	1.03***		0.02***	0.59***		3.04***	1.76***
	(0.01)	(0.09)		(0.003)	(0.12)		(0.45)	(0.22)
Panel B: P-values on the Interaction Term between CVH and Female Indicator
All Favorable	Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
1+ Elevated, None High	0.94	0.47		0.95	0.47		0.46	0.78
1 High	0.95	0.59		0.93	0.56		0.37	0.93
2 + High	0.91	0.78		0.82	0.60		0.06	0.73

Notes: Each column within a panel is from a separate regression. The sample size for each regression is 158,306. Panel A shows coefficients (marginal effects calculated at the mean of covariates) and cluster-robust standard errors (in parenthesis) obtained from negative binomial models. The coefficients in Panel A represent the per person difference in the dependent variable between less favorable CVH strata and all favorable CVH strata. In Panel B, we estimated separate models that also included the interaction term between CVH and the female indicator and the values in cells are the p-values on the interaction terms. All regressions also control for age at follow-up, state of residence, year, baseline age, race, sex, baseline education, and whether the participant died during the year.

^**p-value<0.05

^***p-value<0.01