Changes in mental health financing since 1971: Implications for policymakers and patients

Health Affairs

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 601-613

  Frank, Richard G ^a   Glied, Sherry ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; INSURANCE, PSYCHIATRIC; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744757993     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.3.601     Document Type: Review

References (37)

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2. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Estimates of Expenditures for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment, 1991-2001, Pub. no. SMA 05-3999 (Rockville, Md.: SAMHSA, 2005).
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4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Cost of Mental Illness - 1971, Pub. no. 76-265 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975).
5. See Appendix 1, available online at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/ content/full/25/3/601/DC1.
6. DHHS, The Cost of Mental Illness - 1971.
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9. Frank and Glied, Better but Not Well.
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13. Ibid.
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18. Frank and Glied, Better but Not Well.
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23. SAMHSA, Mental Health, United States, 2002, Pub. no. SMA 3938 (Rockville, Md.: SAMHSA, 2004), Chap. 18, Table 2.
24. SSA, Annual Statistical Supplement, 2001, Table 5.D1, December 2001, http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2001/5d.pdf (accessed 26 January 2006).
25. Annual Statistical Supplement, 2001, 2001, Ibid., Table 7.F1, http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2001/7f.pdf (accessed 26 January 2006).
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27. U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004, Pub. no. P60-229 (Washington: U.S. GPO, 2005), Table C-1.
28. Tabulations from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), 1996 and 2002.
29. J.R. Lave, "Developing a Medicare Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Psychiatric Care," Health Affairs 22, no. 5 (2003): 97-109.
30. S.M. Foote and C. Hogan, "Disability Profile and Health Care Costs of Medicare Beneficiaries under Age Sixty-five," Health Affairs 20, no. 6 (2001): 242-253.
31. L.D. Brown and M.S. Sparer, "Poor Program's Progress: The Unanticipated Politics of Medicaid Policy," Health Affairs 22, no. 1 (2003): 31-44.
32. See R.G. Frank, H.H. Goldman, and M. Hogan, "Medicaid and Mental Health: Be Careful What You Ask For," Health Affairs 22, no. 1 (2003): 101-113.
33. Brown and Sparer, "Poor Program's Progress."
34. This estimate was made by applying the average annual growth rate in mental health spending for 1996-2001 to the 2001 estimates to obtain an estimate for 2002.
35. For example, the $15 billion reported in Exhibit 5 for 1997 represents 89.3 percent of SMHA spending.
36. SAMHSA, National Estimates; and Ted Lutterman, director of data analysis, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Research Institute, personal communication, October 2005.
37. SAMHSA, National Estimates.