Figure. Association Between Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Funding per Resident and County-Level Characteristics, by Race.

Error bars indicate 95% CIs.

^aReflects the mean value across hospitals in the county, weighted by each hospital’s number of beds.

^bReflects quintiles of DSH payments in dollars per county resident across counties with nonzero DSH allocations. Counties receiving zero dollars in DSH payments are shown in quintile 0.

^cNumber of deaths among residents younger than 75 years per 100 000 population (age adjusted).

^dPercentage of adults reporting fair or poor health (age adjusted).