Table 6. Percent of Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries, by Type of Disability and Dimension of Satisfaction¹.

Dimension of Satisfaction	All Disabled Beneficiaries	Persons With Mental Disability	Other Disability
			Persons Ever Told They Had a Mental Disorder	Persons With Specified Condition	Persons With Unspecified Condition
	Percent
Followup Care Received After an Initial Treatment or Operation	89.0	81.7	85.4	**92.4	**89.9
Overall Quality of Care Received in the Past Year	88.0	80.9	83.7	**88.1	**91.5
Concern of Doctors for Overall Health	85.9	74.8	85.4	**89.5	**87.2
Information Given About What Was Wrong	84.3	75.6	83.7	**88.0	**85.4
Getting Medical Care Needs Taken Care of at the Same Location	84.2	77.6	83.0	**84.4	**86.9
Ease and Convenience of Getting to a Doctor from Home	83.2	80.4	81.1	83.2	85.0
Availability of Medical Care at Night or on Weekends	81.1	67.3	82.8	**83.0	**84.3
Out-of-Pocket Costs of Medical Care	60.3	61.1	79.2	57.8	62.6

^**p < 0.05 (reference group is persons with mental disability).

¹Percent reporting they were very satisfied or satisfied with the particular dimension.

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.