The Affordable Care Act: policy predictors of integrated care between Hispanic-serving and mainstream mental health organizations

Table 1 Sample characteristics stratified by Hispanic-serving (HSO) and Mainstream organizations (MO) (N = 19,314)

Variables	HSO (N = 2803)		MO (N = 16,511)		p-values
Variables	n	%	n	%	p-values
Integrated Care Variables
Integrated addictions treatment					< 0.001
Yes	1520	54.4	9725	59.1
No	1273	45.6	6726	40.9
Integrated primary care					0.549
Yes	619	22.2	3734	22.7
No	2166	77.8	12,686	77.3
ACA Provisions
Medicaid expansion					< 0.001
Expansion state	2174	77.6	9418	57.0
Non-expansion state	629	22.4	7093	43.0
Medicaid payments accepted					0.978
Yes	2501	91.0	14,706	90.9
No	249	9.0	1467	9.1
Community mental health block grants					< 0.001
Yes	845	38.2	5630	42.9
No	1365	61.8	7505	57.1
Control Variables
Community mental health center					< 0.001
Yes	703	25.1	4923	29.8
No	2100	74.9	11,588	70.2
Ownership					< 0.001
Public/other	537	19.2	3312	20.1
Private non-profit	1970	70.3	10,398	63.0
Private for-profit	296	10.5	2801	16.9
	HSO		MO
	M [Category^a] (SD)		M [Category^a] (SD)		p-values
Organization size	7.7 [101 to 250] (2.8)		7.4 [76–100] (2.9)		< 0.001
% Youth clients	3.6 [31 to 40%] (2.8)		2.8 [21 to 30%] (2.5)		< 0.001
% Adult clients	4.5 [41 to 50%] (2.6)		5.3 [41 to 50%] (2.2)		< 0.001
% Older adult clients	0.9 [1 to 10%] (1.1)		1.2 [1 to 10%] (1.3)		< 0.001
% Female clients	5.1 [41 to 50%] (1.2)		5.2 [41 to 50%] (1.3)		< 0.001

Notes. Percentages are presented for nominal variables and means and standard deviations for ordinal/continuous variables. All variables were included in 2014 and 2016 N-MHSS. Mental-health Hispanic-serving organizations = more than 20% of Hispanic clients; Mainstream organizations = 20% or fewer of Hispanic clients
^a Categories were determined by rounding the decimal to the nearest whole number

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