The impact of hospital and market characteristics on adjusted charges.

Legend: In this second step of our two-part regression, we regressed hospital and market characteristics on the log of the adjusted average charges per length of stay at each hospital generated from the first regression. The effects displayed here represent the impact the variable in question had on the hospital’s charge for the average California patient. They are calculated as the difference between the exponentiated coefficients from the model and one, to show percent change.