Hopkins Analysis Finds No ‘Skyrocketing’ Increase In Behavioral Health Benefit Costs

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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 . . .