PERSPECTIVE: Health Economic Interests at NIMH and NIDA to Improve Delivery of Behavioral Health Services
This article highlights key areas of the interest of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in supporting applied health economics and health care financing research. Specifically, this article discusses the long-range impact of NIH's earlier investments in applied health economics research, and NIH's ongoing efforts to communicate its interests in health economics research. We discuss the 2023 NIMH-NIDA-sponsored health economics conference, and the ideas presented there for developing and assessing innovative behavioral health care financing models; three of the pre...
Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jennifer L Humensky Sarah Q Duffy Leonardo Cubillos Michael C Freed Agnes Rupp Source Type: research
Effectiveness of Antidepressants in Combination with Psychotherapy
This study reports the remission rates for the 14 most commonly prescribed single antidepressants (amitriptyline, bupropion, citalopram, desvenlafaxine, doxepin, duloxetine, escitalopram, fluoxetine, mirtazapine, nortriptyline, paroxetine, sertraline, trazodone, and venlafaxine) and a category named "Other" (other antidepressants/combination of antidepressants). The study used robust LASSO regressions to identify factors that affected remission rate and clinicians' selection of antidepressants. The selection bias in observational data was removed through stratification. We organized the data into 16,770 subgroups, of at le...
Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Farrokh Alemi Tulay G Soylu Mary Cannon Conor McCandless Source Type: research
The Economic Burden of Chronic Psychotic Disorders: An Incidence-based Cost-of-Illness Approach
The objective of this study was to estimate the direct cumulative mean health care costs of chronic psychotic disorders, using an incidence-based, cost-of-illness approach and real-world data from a single-payer health care system.METHODS: Using health records from Ontario, Canada, all individuals with a valid health card number, residing in the province, and diagnosed with a chronic psychotic disorder between the ages of 16 and 45 from April 1st, 2006, to March 31st, 2021, were included in the analysis. Using a mix of bottom-up and top-down methodologies and a robust cost estimator, cumulative mean health care costs were ...
Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claire de Oliveira Bryan Tanner Source Type: research
PERSPECTIVE: A Path to Value-Based Insurance Design for Mental Health Services
DISCUSSION: The inability to afford mental health care is a top barrier to treatment seeking. People who do elect to spend time and money on mental health care are further disadvantaged by accessing care that is not well regulated and the quality at best is questionable. VBID could be an important lever for increasing access to and use of high value mental health care. Partnerships among the research, practice, and policy communities can help ensure research solutions meet needs of these two communities.IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE: VBID holds promise to make high value mental health care more affordable while discouraging...
Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Michael C Freed Jennifer L Humensky Patricia A Arean Source Type: research
PERSPECTIVE: Health Economic Interests at NIMH and NIDA to Improve Delivery of Behavioral Health Services
This article highlights key areas of the interest of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in supporting applied health economics and health care financing research. Specifically, this article discusses the long-range impact of NIH's earlier investments in applied health economics research, and NIH's ongoing efforts to communicate its interests in health economics research. We discuss the 2023 NIMH-NIDA-sponsored health economics conference, and the ideas presented there for developing and assessing innovative behavioral health care financing models; three of the pre...
Source: Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jennifer L Humensky Sarah Q Duffy Leonardo Cubillos Michael C Freed Agnes Rupp Source Type: research
