Estimating determinants of healthcare establishment locations with restricted federal administrative data
利用受限联邦数据研究美国九类医疗保健机构的选址决定因素,发现高比例医保受益人会减少机构数量,而产业集聚则增加机构数量,且农村贫困人口仍面临就医困难。
We model the locational determinants of nine categories of healthcare services in the contiguous United States using restricted access federal establishment data. These data enable close examination of rural health services, which are subject to suppression in publicly published data sources. After reviewing differences in public and unsuppressed restricted data and testing underlying data generation processes for each healthcare industry, including the Poisson, negative binomial, and their zero-inflated counterparts, we estimate marginal effects for four categories of independent variables: place-based factors, financial access, characteristics of population, and industry interdependencies. Findings show establishments are less likely to be found with high concentrations of Medicare and Medicaid recipients, while agglomerations are associated with more establishments. Nonemployer establishments serve a broader spectrum of people, but the rural poor still experience less access to health care.