Table 2.

Service availability for low-income and non-English speaking populations at specialty mental health treatment facilities

	Hospital-based Facilities			Community-based Facilities
	Total	Offer Youth Services		Total	Offer Youth Services
	(N=1,533) %	No± (n=940) %	Yes± (n=593) %	(N=6,034) %	No± (n=1,467) %	Yes± (n=4,567) %
Payments accepted
Medicaid a,b	92.1	89.7	96.1 ***	91.0	88.8	91.7 ***
Sliding scale fee c,d	33.6	30.6	38.2 **	77.5	68.8	80.3 ***
Services offered at no charge to those who cannot pay e,f	69.6	70.2	68.5	72.4	75.6	71.4 **
Private Insurance Accepted a,b	95.2	93.8	97.4 ***	79.6	65.6	84.1 ***
Services offered in other language g,h
Spanish	49.1	46.1	53.9 **	45.9	39.1	48.1 ***
Other	25.0	25.5	24.2	13.8	14.9	13.4

Notes:

^±statistical tests were conducted using chi-square tests.

*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001

^aTotal does not add to 1,533 hospital-based facilities due to missing values: n=21

^bTotal does not add to 6,034 community-based facilities due to missing values: n=92

^cTotal does not add to 1,533 hospital-based facilities due to missing values: n=79

^dTotal does not add to 6,034 community-based facilities due to missing values: n=99

^eTotal does not add to 1,533 hospital-based facilities due to missing values: n=55

^fTotal does not add to 6,034 community-based facilities due to missing values: n=133

^gTotal does not add to 1,533 hospital-based facilities due to missing values: n=9

^hTotal does not add to 6,034 community-based facilities due to missing values: n=39.