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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2019 May 24;66:208–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.05.008

Table 9.

Regression of outcomes on star rating (assumed continuous) with different model or sample specifications

Any acute hospitalization within 30 days Any hospitalization within 180 days Death within 30 days Deathwithin 180 days Became long-stay nursing-home resident
Hospital fixed effects
N = 1,276,307		 −0.00707***
(0.00166)		 −0.0113***
(0.00224)		 −0.00309***
(0.00108)		 −0.00909***
(0.00170)		 0.00340**
(0.00160)
Hospital & ZIP code fixed effects
N=1,276,307		 −0.00520*
(0.00311)		 −0.00480
(0.00409)		 −0.00470**
(0.00208)		 −0.0122***
(0.00315)		 −0.00725**
(0.00299)
Hospitals without SNF
N = 901,340		 −0.00811**
(0.00372)		 −0.00495
(0.00487)		 −0.00424*
(0.00247)		 −0.00939**
(0.00377)		 −0.00794**
(0.00351)
Hospitals with SNF
N =369,706		 −0.0166
(0.0168)		 −0.00318
(0.0226)		 −0.00364
(0.0113)		 −0.0262
(0.0168)		 −0.0114
(0.0163)
Including DRG fixed effects
N = 1,276,307		 −0.00558*
(0.00305)		 −0.00524
(0.00399)		 −0.00534***
(0.00203)		 −0.0130***
(0.00304)		 −0.00749**
(0.00293)
Urban beneficiaries
N = 1,050,252		 −0.00766**
(0.00369)		 −0.00706
(0.00479)		 −0.00725***
(0.0024)		 −0.0191***
(0.00368)		 −0.00793**
(0.00348)
Rural beneficiaries
N = 226,198		 0.000665
(0.0055)		 −0.00113
(0.00748)		 0.000742
(0.00388)		 0.0022
(0.00584)		 −0.00773
(0.00558)

Note: Robust standard errors clustering error are in parentheses. Each coefficient and associated standard errors is derived from a separate regression. All regressions include patient characteristics listed in Table 2 and month of SNF admission dummies.

***

p < 0.01.

**

p < 0.05.

*

p < 0.1