In most health plans, 35% of total health care resources are used by the 5% of the population with a behavioral health disorder (see How Do Individuals With Behavioral Health Conditions Contribute To Physical And Total Healthcare Spending? and Concentration Of Healthcare Expenditures And Selected Characteristics Of Persons With High Expenses). Specific strategies for these consumers – most with a range of co-occurring disorders – are critical to the success of both health plans and provider organizations in a market landscape increasingly focused on performance and value. 

A recent analysis of health care spending patterns among transition age youth with autism, intellectual/ development disabilities (I/DD), or both (see Brief Report: Healthcare Utilization & Expenditure Trends Among Autistic Transition Age Youth),…