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Table 1 Summary statistics

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

  1. Rural status is defined as counties with extreme access considerations (CEAC), Rural, or Micro counties in 2014. The number of observations for inpatient revenue for the full sample period is 31,000. The number of observations for inpatient revenue is 18,270 for urban and 12,730 for rural
  2. Abbreviations: ALOS average length of stay, CEAC counties with extreme access considerations, MA Medicare Advantage, SD standard deviation