Table 5.

Estimated Physician Effect on Medication Adherence during First Year of Diagnosis for Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
	N: Total	N: Physicians	Baseline Rate	Physicians Coefficient	Standard Error
Panel A. Sponsors Analysis: Comparison of Physician Patients with Non-Physician Military Officers
Medication Possession Ratio: Hypertension	39,435	1,018	0.7229	0.0191**	0.0093
Medication Possession Ratio: Hypercholesterolemia	52,017	1,322	0.6423	0.0030	0.0084
Panel B. Dependents Analysis: Comparison of Dependents of Physician Patients with Dependents of Non- Physician Military Officers
Medication Possession Ratio: Hypertension	23,856	595	0.6868	0.0040	0.0137
Medication Possession Ratio: Hypercholesterolemia	30,014	719	0.6381	0.0218*	0.0120

Notes: standard errors are clustered at the individual beneficiary level. Each row represents results from a different specification using the specified dependent variable and the specified sample. All specifications control for patient age-by-sex dummies, patient race dummies, patient pay-grade dummies, previous year RVU, previous year RWP, previous year inpatient days, Charlson combordity index, and base-by-year-by-care-location fixed effects. Data are from the Military Health System Data Repository, 2003–2013.

^***Significant at the 1 percent level

^**Significant at the 5 percent level

^*Significant at the 10 percent level.