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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 Mar;41(3):406–413. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00449

Exhibit 3:

Estimated Differences in Utilization and Cost Per Person Per Year in Overlap Weighted Analyses

Difference in Cost/Use Lower 95% CL Upper 95% CL P
COST
Total Cost, $ per year 5941 −540 12421 0.07
Inpatient Cost, $ per year 1286 −2962 5534 0.55
Emergency Department Cost, $ per year 47 −323 418 0.80
Outpatient Cost, $ per year 4420 722 8119 0.02
UTILIZATION
Inpatient Admissions, per year 0.1 −0.2 0.4 0.71
Emergency Department Visits, per year 0.3 −0.3 0.9 0.29
Outpatient Visits, per year 9.2 0.2 18.2 0.04

Source: Author’s analysis of healthcare system data

Notes Positive numbers indicate higher spending and higher utilization in the transportation group.

Differences come from marginal predictions using the fitted regression models described in the text (gamma regression models with log link for cost outcomes and negative binomial regression models with log link for count outcomes). Confidence intervals and p-values produced using delta method standard errors