. 2019 Mar 27;6:2333392818824472. doi: 10.1177/2333392818824472

Table 4.

Percentage of Networks Made Up of Higher Quality Cardiologists.^a

			Large Metropolitan					Metropolitan					Micropolitan and Rural
	Miles		15	30	60	120	240	15	30	60	120	240	15	30	60	120	240
HMO
50th percentile	ACE score	MA	60.31	59.79	60.00	58.94	57.75	52.59	52.92	52.87	55.39	55.24	89.47	25.00	25.06	32.44	42.60
	ACE score	TM	64.96	64.92	63.60	61.99	59.20	56.16	55.54	57.95	60.73	59.41	86.94	85.10	51.73	45.29	50.53
	DIU score	MA	56.35	54.63	53.59	53.40	52.27	47.39	51.53	52.33	51.69	51.13	89.47	47.50	30.60	39.38	46.81
	DIU score	TM	61.43	61.19	59.32	58.03	54.79	51.11	50.58	56.06	57.63	55.31	86.22	81.90	51.42	46.22	48.18
4 stars	ACE score	MA	27.08	26.52	26.13	25.77	25.03	19.22	20.66	21.30	22.85	22.89	0.00	0.00	7.79	5.43	3.46
	ACE score	TM	30.26	28.96	28.92	27.95	25.97	20.93	24.63	24.84	27.11	26.12	4.08	20.04	21.45	16.64	20.07
	DIU score	MA	27.21	25.54	23.55	23.26	22.45	19.66	20.39	22.32	21.53	21.17	89.47	25.00	13.04	8.44	5.30
	DIU score	TM	31.43	29.29	29.25	28.49	26.24	21.44	25.62	25.65	27.58	26.25	81.94	16.79	16.72	14.10	18.26
90th percentile	ACE score	MA	10.09	9.64	8.83	8.68	8.48	5.00	5.30	5.87	6.63	6.66	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.08
	ACE score	TM	9.84	9.70	8.74	8.01	7.46	4.59	5.11	6.28	7.52	7.39	0.00	1.09	2.15	3.04	4.78
	DIU score	MA	20.51	18.62	16.55	16.01	15.43	10.85	12.09	14.08	14.43	14.07	89.47	25.00	3.77	2.11	1.45
	DIU score	TM	22.17	21.47	19.73	18.53	16.98	12.94	13.30	16.50	18.06	16.89	80.60	11.49	9.11	8.35	10.70
PPO
50th percentile	ACE score	MA	75.95	76.61	75.66	71.04	68.44	61.83	56.70	59.27	68.03	69.77
	ACE score	TM	67.15	67.15	65.59	63.64	60.68	56.13	56.03	59.14	63.59	62.22
	DIU score	MA	63.75	62.30	61.13	62.15	60.14	34.97	51.40	60.93	60.37	61.52
	DIU score	TM	62.91	62.86	60.71	59.17	55.86	50.67	51.57	57.62	59.92	57.53
4 stars	ACE score	MA	32.49	31.70	29.84	28.40	26.93	11.25	15.67	19.32	25.03	27.76
	ACE score	TM	31.51	30.31	30.31	29.10	26.98	21.62	25.35	25.45	29.08	28.05
	DIU score	MA	33.55	32.00	28.45	29.29	27.83	19.83	23.38	27.11	28.32	28.93
	DIU score	TM	32.72	30.89	30.89	30.03	27.56	24.27	28.54	28.46	30.26	28.80
90th percentile	ACE score	MA	6.43	6.42	5.78	6.32	6.12	6.73	7.16	7.47	6.15	6.31
	ACE score	TM	10.45	10.30	9.39	8.55	7.97	4.95	5.06	6.35	8.31	8.28
	DIU score	MA	19.01	19.05	15.93	14.83	13.91	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	DIU score	TM	23.19	22.65	20.93	19.62	17.99	10.20	11.54	13.44	14.94	14.47

Abbreviations: ACE, angiotensin-converting enzyme; DIU, diuretics; MA, Medicare Advantage; TM, traditional Medicare.

^aAll differences between TM and MA are significant at P < .001 unless marked in bold.