Table 2 Comparison of Healthcare Utilization Between Medicare Beneficiaries with a Majority of Primary Care Clinician Visits to an FQHC in 2013 and Medicare Beneficiaries Who Received Primary Care Elsewhere
FQHC Users (n = 130,569) | Unmatched FQHC Non-Users (n = 1,000,000) | Matched FQHC Non-Users (n = 130,569) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean number of visits | Percent of beneficiaries with at least one | Mean number of visits | Percent of beneficiaries with at least one | Mean number of visits | Percent of beneficiaries with at least one | |
Ambulatory Visits | ||||||
Any ambulatory visit | 10.0 | 100.0% | 12.0† | 100.0% | 11.2† | 100.0% |
Primary care | 6.2 | 100.0% | 6.7† | 100.0% | 6.8† | 100.0% |
Specialty care | 3.8 | 73.7% | 5.3† | 83.8%† | 4.5† | 78.1%† |
At an FQHC | 5.8 | 100.0% | 0.0† | 0.0%† | 0.0† | 0.0%† |
Primary care | 5.5 | 100.0% | 0.0† | 0.0%† | 0.0† | 0.0%† |
Specialty care | 0.3 | 9.8% | 0.0† | 0.0%† | 0.0† | 0.0%† |
At site other than FQHC | 4.2 | 77.3% | 12.0† | 100.0%† | 11.2† | 100.0%† |
Primary care | 0.7 | 33.7% | 6.7† | 100.0%† | 6.8† | 100.0%† |
Specialty care | 3.5 | 70.9% | 5.3† | 83.8%† | 4.5† | 78.1%† |
ED visits | ||||||
Any ED visit | 1.2 | 44.5% | 0.8† | 39.3%† | 1.0† | 41.5%† |
Chronic ACSC | 0.1 | 5.9% | 0.1† | 4.6%† | 0.1† | 4.8%† |
Other | 1.1 | 42.7% | 0.8† | 37.8%t | 0.9† | 40.0%† |
With admission only | 0.2 | 13.3% | 0.2† | 15.8%† | 0.2* | 12.7%† |
Chronic ACSC | 0.0 | 2.2% | 0.0 | 2.3% | 0.0* | 2.0%* |
Other | 0.2 | 11.9% | 0.2† | 14.6%† | 0.2* | 11.4%* |
Without admission only | 1.0 | 39.8% | 0.6† | 31.9%† | 0.8† | 36.4%† |
Chronic ACSC | 0.1 | 4.3% | 0.0† | 2.7%† | 0.0† | 3.3%† |
Other | 0.9 | 38.3% | 0.6† | 30.8%† | 0.8† | 35.2%† |
Hospitalizations | ||||||
Any hospitalization | 0.3 | 19.1% | 0.4† | 23.0%† | 0.3 | 18.8% |
Chronic ACSC | 0.0 | 2.9% | 0.0 | 2.9% | 0.0 | 2.6%* |
Other | 0.3 | 17.6% | 0.3† | 21.7%† | 0.3 | 17.5% |