14.3% Of Adults Had Expenses For Mental Health Disorders

About 14.3% of adults living in the community and between the ages of 18 and 64 had some health care expenses for mental health disorders in 2009 through 2011. Each year, about 27.5 million adults in this age group had mental health expenses totaling $48.2 billion annually. Average annual per-person mental health expenditures were $1,751 per person.

These findings were reported in “Expenditures for Mental Health among Adults, Ages 18-64, 2009-2011: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population” by Chava Zibman, Ph.D., of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ . . .