. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am Econ J Appl Econ. 2019 Apr;11(2):302–332. doi: 10.1257/app.20170295

Table 7:

Differences in spending per episode of care

	TM, unweighted	TM, weighted^a	TM, mort. weighted^a	MA	Difference
					((4)−(2))/(2)	((4)−(3))/(3)
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Total spending ($/month)	911	855	706	642	−24.9%	−9.0%
Spending perSNF day	381	379	383	378	−0.2%	−1.4%
Spending per outpatient ED visit	782	768	760	837	9.0%	10.1%
Inpatient^b:
Spending per admission	10,134	10,151	10,206	10,093	−0.6%	−1.1%
Spending perday	1,901	1,903	1,950	1,908	0.3%	−2.1%

Results based on baseline sample (See Table 1, columns 8 and 4). All statistics are at the enrollee-month level, but all expenditures or days associated with a given encounter are attributed to the original admission date, even if it extends beyond the month.

Weighting based on our preferred weighting, as in column (4) of both panels in Table 2.

Inpatient spending here includes only payments to the hospital; it does not include associated physician payments as in prior tables.