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Whether this is true for lower-value PCI is unknown.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To examine the association between the regional supply of PCI-performing physicians and PCI use and lower-value use.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design<\/jats:title>\n Cross-sectional.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Setting<\/jats:title>\n 100% Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims and Medicare Advantage encounter data, linked to publicly available sources of population and hospital data.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Participants<\/jats:title>\n All Medicare FFS and MA beneficiaries undergoing PCI at US hospitals, 2019\u20132021.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Measurements<\/jats:title>\n Our exposure was the supply of PCI-performing physicians per million population in the hospital-referral-region (HRR). Our primary outcome was lower-value PCI provision defined as the share of all PCIs performed for stable CAD at the hospital-level, unadjusted and with multilevel linear regression adjustment for hospital and regional-population factors. We also examined both PCI use and lower-value use at the regional (HRR) level.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Our final dataset included 1,580 hospitals across 306 HRRs with 5,505 PCI-performing physicians. In our primary, hospital-level analysis, the lower-value PCI provision rate averaged 17.3% among hospitals located in HRRs in the lowest quintile of PCI provider density and 22.6% among hospitals in HRRs in the highest quintile. In our fully adjusted model, hospitals in the highest provider density quintile had a 5.77 percentage point higher lower-value provision rate than those in the lowest quintile (95% CI 3.70, 7.84; p\u2009<\u20090.01).<\/jats:p>\n In our HRR-level analysis, both the total number of PCIs\/beneficiary and lower-value PCIs\/beneficiary rose with increasing regional PCI-provider density.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Among Medicare beneficiaries, the regional supply of PCI providers correlates with PCI overall and lower-value use. 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