The Effect of HMOs on the Inpatient Utilization of Medicare Beneficiaries

Technical Appendix

by Nasreen Dhanani, June O'Leary, Emmett B. Keeler, Anil Bamezai, Glenn Melnick

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In this Appendix, we explain and justify our analytic approach to estimating the pure managed care effect of Medicare HMOs.

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