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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Sep 24;39(11):2010–2017. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00980

Exhibit 2.

Changes in non-COVID-19 medical admissions and all medical admissions in a group of US hospitals relative to baseline, total and by subgroup, 2020

Change in non-COVID-19 admissions (%) Change in all medical admissions (%)
Patient subgroups Sample size at baseline Nadir (April) Rebound (June/July) Nadir (April) Rebound (June/July)
Overall 105,688 −42.8 −15.9 −34.1 −8.3
Race, ethnicity, and poverty status of ZIP code
 >50% Black 5,140 −45.2 −11.9 −30.1 −2.3a
 >50% Hispanic 9,161 −44.2 −31.8 −34.8 −14.1
 Poverty rate >25% 6,761 −44.0 −16.7 −31.5 −2.7
Insurance status
 Medicaid 13,009 −41.4 −9.7 −31.2 −2.5
 Self-pay 2,922 −37.7 −20.3 −27.3 −3.7
Age
 Older (age 70+) 42,384 −45.4 −19.1 −37.5 −13.2
 Younger (age <50) 23,636 −39.3 −13.4 −30.4 −3.4
Hospital COVID-19 volume
 Highest quintile 21,285 −50.0 −23.3 −31.2 −9.9
 Lowest quintile 21,231 −39.5 −6.8 −36.5 −5.5

SOURCE Data from Sound Physicians hospital admissions. NOTES Data from 201 hospitals in 36 states. These estimates adjust for seasonality by use of the corresponding weeks for 2019 data. The appendix contains details regarding estimates of confidence intervals (see note 17 in text). The sample size is for the initial (baseline) February 2020 admissions.

a

All differences in use relative to the seasonally adjusted baseline are significant at the 0.05 level except for this coefficient.