The Cost Of Untreated Mental Illness? $1,000 Per Citizen Per Year

Maybe quantifying the problem will help drive cross-system solutions. That was my reaction to the piece Untreated Mental Health A Factor Behind Health Care ‘Superutilizers’, from the Community Radio for Northern Colorado, that found that not treating mental illnesses cost every citizen in Colorado $1,000.

The analysts took an interesting approach to this analysis, which was based on the following statistics:

1. Among Colorado Medicaid enrollees, patients with mental health problems spend eight times more than patients without mental health problems.</li . . .
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