Table 1. Number and Percent of Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries, by Category of Disability.

Category	Number	Percent
Total	1,884	100.0
Eligible for Medicare as a result of mental or psychiatric disorder	286	15.2
Eligible for Medicare as a result of another condition, but ever told they had a mental or psychiatric disorder	295	15.7
Eligible for Medicare because of a specified condition	584	31.0
Eligible for Medicare because of another (unspecified) condition	719	38.2

SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration, Office of the Actuary: Data from Round 1 of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey; data analysis by the Center for Health Economics Research, Waltham, MA.