TABLE 2—

Characteristics of Medicaid Mental Health Programs and Agencies, by Mode of Care Provision: California, 1997–2006

Variable	County Run (n = 981)	CBO Run (n = 345)	P
Language access programming, %	67.48	76.23	.001
Threshold status,a %	61.26	70.43	.002
Penetration rate, English speakers, mean	5.82	6.90	< .001
Eligibility/1000, mean	602.84	4107.19	< .001
Per capita income, $1000, mean	27.17	33.92	< .001
Majority Republican voters, %	53.11	41.16	< .001
No. of bilingual providers, mean	17.26	180.41	< .001

Note. CBO = community-based organization. The unit of analysis is county quarter.

^aThreshold status is reached when either 3000 Medi-Cal enrollees in a county or 5% of the county’s Medi-Cal residents, whichever is greater, speak a non-English language.