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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ J Econ Policy. 2019 Aug;11(3):197–231. doi: 10.1257/pol.20180167

Table 4.

Relationship between Medical Liability Immunity and Various Alternative Treatment Intensity Metrics among Full Inpatient Sample

(1) (2) (3)

Total Bed Days (Logged) Incidence of Any Procedure Number of Procedures (Logged)
Active Duty Patient 0.072
(0.010)
0.011
(0.004)
0.034
(0.012)
Active Duty Patient X MTF −0.053
(0.018)
−0.028
(0.009)
−0.052
(0.019)
N 2408947 2418240 1888351
Interaction Coefficient as a Fraction of Mean of Outcome Variable, For Non-Logged Outcome Variables - −0.04 -

Notes: robust standard errors corrected for within-catchment-area correlation in the error term are reported in parentheses (based on original catchment area designations). All regressions include year, primary diagnosis code, hospital and zip-code fixed effects and controls for patient age (dummies), sex, Charlson comorbidity and paygrade (dummies). MTF and Active-Duty-Patient X MTF are instrumented by a series of dummy variables capturing different distance bins between a patient’s residence and the closest MTF along with the interaction between such dummies and the active-duty-patient dummy. The coefficient of the MTF indicator is dropped due to the inclusion of provider fixed effects.

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