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medical care utilization and transcendental meditation programThe accuracy of these values was checked by showing that the sumof the admissions per 1000 calculated for the 18 categories equaled thetotal admissions per 1000 given in the MIC report.Other AccountsAs a control for profession, MIC actuarial services selected five otherinsurance accounts with comparable policies that were of similar sizeand professional membership as SCI for utilization indicators for 1982incurred. None of the Other Accounts selected for the comparisonwith SCI exactly matches the SCI group, which was difficult to matchbecause its membership is not based on a common profession, althoughmost of its membership can be characterized as “white collar” and manyare teachers. The Other Accounts do, however, cover a variety of professionstypical of the SCI members, including two banking groups,a school system (teachers and administrators), a computer firm (hightechnology), and a city government unit (see bottom of Table 1 for Nfor each of these groups). The terms of the health insurance policies ofthe Other Accounts were comparable to SCI’s.Statistical AnalysisThe hypothesis that the medical utilization indicators for SCI and GroupBusiness were significantly different over the five years was tested usingthe chi-square statistic for a 2 x 5 table representing the two groups(SCI and Group Business) for the five years (1981–1985). The utilizationrates for the normative data (Group Business) were used as theexpected values and the rates for SCI were the observed values. A separatechi square was calculated for each indicator—inpatient admissionsper 1000, inpatient days per 1000, outpatient visits per 1000, inpatientprocedures (e.g., x-rays etc.) per 1000, outpatient procedures per 1000,and total health charges.331