From: Medicare Advantage penetration and the financial distress of rural hospitals
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VARIABLES | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD |
All | Urban Hospitals | Rural Hospitals | ||||
MA Penetration Rate (%) | 30.0 | 15.1 | 35.3 | 13.4 | 21.5 | 13.8 |
County Designation in 2014 (%) | ||||||
CEAC | 6.7 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17.6 | 38.1 |
Rural | 15.9 | 36.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 41.6 | 49.3 |
Micro | 15.5 | 36.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 40.7 | 49.1 |
Metro | 42.7 | 49.5 | 69.0 | 46.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Large Metro | 19.2 | 39.4 | 31.0 | 46.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Outcomes | ||||||
Medicare Inpatient Days | 16,284.8 | 23,251.7 | 23,381.6 | 26,685.4 | 4,755.5 | 6,880.7 |
Non-Medicare Inpatient Days | 19,540.4 | 31,664.9 | 27,619.2 | 37,094.3 | 6,415.6 | 10,859.1 |
Medicare Discharges | 2,818.5 | 4,008.1 | 4,029.5 | 4,601.8 | 851.1 | 1,227.4 |
Medicare ALOS | 8.9 | 56.8 | 8.7 | 22.4 | 9.2 | 87.5 |
Inpatient Revenue ($Million) | 324.8 | 704.9 | 516.7 | 861.9 | 49.3 | 123.1 |
County Characteristics | ||||||
Density (Population per Square Mile) | 1,244.3 | 4,733.8 | 1,982.8 | 5,896.6 | 44.3 | 57.4 |
Population | 729,623.9 | 1,572,539.6 | 1,157,655.5 | 1,874,458.3 | 34,243.9 | 31,836.1 |
%Covered by Medicare | 17.9 | 3.6 | 17.6 | 4.1 | 18.3 | 2.5 |
Characteristics of County Residents Covered by Medicare | ||||||
Age | 71.0 | 1.2 | 71.1 | 1.4 | 70.9 | 1.0 |
%Female | 55.3 | 1.6 | 55.6 | 1.8 | 54.7 | 1.2 |
%Married, Spouse Present | 53.0 | 5.0 | 52.2 | 5.8 | 54.3 | 2.7 |
%White, non-Hispanic | 76.2 | 16.0 | 72.9 | 17.2 | 81.7 | 12.0 |
%Black, non-Hispanic | 11.2 | 10.7 | 12.6 | 11.7 | 8.8 | 8.3 |
%Hispanic | 7.4 | 10.2 | 8.7 | 11.3 | 5.2 | 7.4 |
%Other | 5.2 | 6.5 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 4.3 | 5.3 |
%High School or Above | 86.0 | 5.6 | 85.8 | 6.1 | 86.4 | 4.7 |
%Employed | 94.8 | 2.5 | 94.5 | 2.8 | 95.4 | 1.7 |
%In Labor Force | 17.1 | 2.8 | 17.1 | 3.0 | 16.9 | 2.4 |
%Federal Poverty Level | 298.2 | 27.0 | 301.7 | 30.1 | 292.4 | 19.8 |
Household Income ($) | 111,996.9 | 18,092.5 | 113,642.7 | 20,003.4 | 109,323.1 | 14,054.9 |
#Observations | 37,663 | 23,313 | 14,350 |