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PubMed2001

Patterns of mental health utilization and costs among children in a privately insured population.

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in mental health service use and cost among privately insured children. DATA SOURCES: Inpatient and outpatient claims from the MarketScan database, a collection of health care claims for a national sample of over seven million privately insured individuals. Claims were analyzed for all users of mental health services 17 years of age and under from 1993 to 1996. STUDY DESIGN: The proportion of children receiving mental health services and annual costs and treatment days per treated child were compared across diagnostic groups over time. PRINCIPLE FINDINGS: The proportion of covered children receiving any mental health services fell substantially (-30.0 percent). Inpatient mental health costs per treated child fell $4,587 (-46.9 percent) during the period, driven by decreases in the number of hospital days per treated child per year (-22.9 percent) and per diem costs (-14.5 percent). Outpatient mental health costs also fell during the period due to a 5.1 percent decline in the number of treatment days and a 25.9 percent fall in costs per day. Children whose primary diagnosis was hyperactivity experienced the largest decrease in inpatient costs per treated patient, those diagnosed with schizophrenia experienced the smallest decrease, and those diagnosed with substance abuse disorders experienced large increases. CONCLUSIONS: Changes in mental health service delivery have resulted in substantially reduced access to mental health care among children and significant declines in service use and costs among those who do receive services.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Cost-financed mental health facility. III. Economic issues and implications for future patterns of health care.

Data are presened concerning the economics of a cost-financed mental health facility and a lobor union insurance program. The total cost per insured enrolle for all mental health services did not exceed $5.41 per year. The cost per treated patient per year remained under $490. These data strongly support the feasibility of including mental health benefits in national health insurance. Costs are then compared between fee-for-service insurance and cost financing. Average costs per treated patient in the cost-financed facility were $302 over a 4-year period. Similar computations under fee-for services financing showed costs of $824. The difference reflects much greater use of hospitalizations in the fee-for-service system. These data and the data from the preceding two papers on the clinical and utilization partterns of cost-financed facilites suggest that these facilities are practical clinical forms. Implications for national health insurance, HMO legislation, and community mental health centers are explored.

Community Mental Health Services↗
PubMed2002

The mental health paradox.

The authors review the evidence that mental health coverage pays for itself by reducing overall health care costs, satisfies and helps patients who receive it, reduces employee absenteeism and improves employee functioning. They then explain the factors contributing to the decline in mental health services valuations and what employers can do to minimize them.

Absenteeism↗