Newsletter Articles | October 31, 1990
Hopkins Analysis Finds No Skyrocketing Increase In Behavioral Health Benefit Costs
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry Statistic
A recent study of behavioral health benefit costs conducted at Johns Hopkins University has failed to find the skyrocketing rate of increase in mental health and chemical dependency costs reported in other studies. According to the findings of Richard Frank, Ph.D. and David Salkever, Ph.D. of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, behavioral health treatment costs averaged approximately 12% of total health benefit costs across the years of the study, 1986 through 1989 . . .