Costs of managed mental health treatment were recovered in 6 to 24 months. Medical care utilization as a function of recovery status following chemical addictions treatment. The impact of successful recovery from drug dependence on health care costs was studied in a sample of 3572 chemical dependency inpatients aged 25 to 82 years. Differences in the total number of hospital days one year prior to treatment between those who recovered successfully and those who relapsed was not significant, but the relapsed group had significantly higher utilization in both years after treatment. Strain JJ, Lyons JS, Hammer JS, Fahs M, Lebovits A, Paddison PL, Snyder S, Strauss E, Burton R, Nuber G, et al.
Cost offset from a psychiatric consultation-liaison intervention with elderly hip fracture patients.
Psychiatric liaison screening on admission of 452 patients aged 65 or older with hip fractures resulted in early detection of psychiatric comorbidity, earlier discharge from the hospital and substantial cost savings to the hospital. A Canadian province-wide database was analyzed and showed that psychiatric services from family physicians lowered overall medical costs. Alcoholism treatment and total health care utilization and costs. A four-year longitudinal analysis of federal employees. Claims filed by 1697 federal health insurance enrollees were examined.