Cost Of Behavioral Health as Share Of Total Health Care Costs Varies Little Over Past 20 Years

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health Industry Analyst Industry Statistics Behavioral health’s share of total health care costs has remained constant over the past 20 years, according to a recent OPEN MINDS study. The share of all direct costs of treatment (including nursing home and support costs) for mental illness and chemical dependency have ranged from 12% to 14% of all health care costs. When these figures are adjusted to exclude nursing home and support costs, behavioral health costs have ranged from 8.6% to 11.2% of total health care expenditures over the past 20 years. If the data . . .