Table 3.

Distance to the Nearest DXA Site in 2006, and Change in Distance after Removing the Non-Facility Sites^*

Actual Distance to the Nearest DXA Site in 2006, miles		% of beneficiaries	New Distance necessary to travel to nearest DXA site after removing Non-Facility DXA Sites, miles
			< 5	5–9	10–24	25–39	40–54	55+
URBAN	< 5	80.5	72.8	18.3	6.5	1.9	0.2	0.1
	5–9	19.1	0	68.6	27.6	2.9	0.6	0.1
	10–24	0.3	0	0	95.1	3.5	0.4	0.9
	25–39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	40–54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	55+	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
RURAL	< 5	75.4	61.5	10.3	20.3	5.7	1.2	0.8
	5–9	13.2	0	61.3	33.7	3.9	0.6	0.3
	10–24	10.4	0	0	88.8	8.9	1.4	0.8
	25–39	0.7	0	0	0	79.4	14.4	6.2
	40–54	0.2	0	0	0	0	71.2	28.8
	55+	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	100

^*Non-facility sites are those outside of a hospital (e.g. a physician office)

Data in each cell are the proportion of persons in each row who have to drive the distance specified in each of the columns after removing the non-facility DXA sites