Market competition and price of disease management programmes: an observational study

Table 3 Association between the four competition groups and price of DMPs based on multivariate linear regression analysis ^$,#,§

	Linear regression
	Effect (95% CI)
Both markets competitive (reference)
Care group dominant market	-1.70 (-42.50 - 39.11)
Insurer dominant market	-9.19 (-46.88 - 28.50)
Both markets concentrated	26.32 (-10.88 - 63.52)

^#Analyses were adjusted for percentage of the persons with a low income (lowest 40% of the whole country) and the percentage of persons with a western and non-western nationality in a GGD region; ^$based on 63 care groups since no data was available on the number of GPs for 13 care groups; ^§Total variance explained (R²): 10%.

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