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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jun;38(6):1037–1045. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00020

EXHIBIT 3. Mean cost of veterans’ inpatient care, by month before and after the start of service receipt.

EXHIBIT 3

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of aggregated encounter data and all-cause hospitalization cost data for 2015–18 from the Veterans Health Administration. NOTES Veteran-Directed Care (VDC) veterans and the “active comparison group” and “inactive comparison group” are explained in the notes to exhibit 1. The months are explained in the notes to exhibit 2. Costs include only those attributed to an acute hospitalization in the Veterans Health Administration. Two hospitalizations were excluded as extreme outliers. Cost data for twenty-seven hospitalizations that lasted after the end of the study were excluded.