Effects of changes in health insurance reimbursement level on outpatient service utilization of rural diabetics: evidence from Jiangsu Province, China

Table 5 Results of effect on the ratio of visits by outpatients to different types of health care provider

Variable	Ratio of visits by outpatients to different health institutions
	Village clinic		THC		County-level hospital
	Coefficient	t-value	Coefficient	t-value	Coefficient	t-value
year	−1.720	−1.30	−2.744***	−2.91	−2.480***	−2.6
Diff-rate	−8.253***	−7.32	−19.993***	−20.86	−33.381***	−36.29
Diff-rate *year	−0.434	−0.29	5.985***	4.55	2.341***	1.97
Sex	−4.040***	−6.48	−2.670***	−3.84	0.978**	1.66
Age 2	4.496***	2.04	6.622***	3.30	−4.444	−1.55
Age 3	−2.293	−1.40	1.243	0.73	−3.567***	−1.99
Age 4	−0.214	−0.14	−6.626***	−4.13	−7.902***	−4.67
Age 5	2.769**	1.87	−9.225***	−5.79	−10.736***	−6.03
Age 6	11.031***	6.67	−6.371***	−3.29	−9.905***	−4.79
Severity of illness
Medium severity	−12.493***	−31.18	4.011***	5.32	5.114***	5.26
High severity	−32.349***	−64.49	6.071***	7.99	19.221***	30.59

Note: * Indicates significance at 0.1; ** Implies significance at 0.05; *** Indicates significance at 0.01.

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