The association between managed care enrollments and potentially preventable hospitalization among adult Medicaid recipients in Florida

Table 1 Characteristics of the study sample

Characteristics	Medicaid			All working-age sample¹
Characteristics	All	HMO	FFS	All working-age sample¹
*Patients’ characteristics (N)*	254,321	59,200	195,121	1,114,151
Hospitalization (%)
ACSC admission	17.80	25.44	15.48	22.04
Non-ACSC admission	82.20	74.56	84.52	77.96
Age group in years (%)
18-24	28.01	19.18	30.69	12.06
25-40	36.85	32.94	38.04	29.96
41-64	35.14	47.89	31.27	57.98
Sex (%)
Male	23.09	29.82	21.05	38.43
Female	76.91	70.18	78.95	61.57
Race (%)
White	43.67	40.51	44.63	60.28
Black	30.50	39.99	27.62	20.93
Others	25.83	19.50	27.75	18.79
Number of comorbidities (%)
None	19.37	12.25	21.53	12.01
One	13.90	10.30	14.99	11.88
Two or more	66.73	77.45	63.47	76.11
*County characteristics* ²
Rurality (%)
Rural	2.43	0.64	2.97	2.13
Urban	97.57	99.36	97.03	97.87
MMC Penetration rates (%)				-
< 50%	14.89	20.74	13.11	17.16
50% - 60%	7.75	6.80	8.04	9.18
60% - 70%	72.33	65.48	74.41	68.58
> 70%	5.03	6.99	4.44	5.07
Number of Medicaid HMO (%)
1	11.33	2.97	13.86	12.07
2 – 5	26.14	26.18	26.12	27.50
6 or more	62.54	70.85	60.01	60.43
HHI of MMC (%)
< 0.25	57.03	60.53	55.97	54.23
> 0.25	42.97	39.47	44.03	45.77
Availability of Primary Care (%)
Low	13.66	11.51	14.31	13.44
High	86.34	88.49	85.69	86.56
Availability of Hospital Beds (%)
Low	14.80	10.85	15.99	15.53
High	85.20	89.15	84.01	84.47
Availability of CHC (%)
Low	96.66	98.44	96.12	97.08
High	3.34	1.56	3.88	2.92

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