ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2018
Mental health treatment dose and annual healthcare costs in patients with cancer and major depressive disorder.
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- The clinical and financial cost of mental disorders among elderly patients with gastrointestinal malignancies.Cancer medicine · 2020Article
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- Association between depression and healthcare expenditures among elderly cancer patients.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
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objectiveDepression in patients with cancer has been associated with increased annual health care use and costs relative to nondepressed patients. Little is known of the potential cost savings associated with receipt of mental health treatment. This study evaluated the association between number of mental health visits and annual health care costs in patients with cancer and comorbid major depression.
methodUsing a retrospective cohort study design, this study included 182 individuals with an ICD-9 chart diagnosis of cancer in 2014 and with comorbid major depressive disorder. The outcome of interest was annual health care charges 1 year from cancer diagnosis. Number of mental health visits was extracted from patients' electronic medical records for the year following cancer diagnosis. A generalized linear model with a log link function and gamma distribution was used to evaluate the association between number of mental health visits and annual health care charges, covarying for age, sex, race/ethnicity, cancer site, metastatic disease, insurance status, and severity of comorbid medical conditions.
resultsA significant association was found between number of mental health visits and annual health care charges (exp(B) = 0.973, 95% CI [0.949, 0.999]; p = .043). Estimated annual health care costs were $99,073 for those receiving no mental health visits and $71,245 for those receiving the sample-based mean of 12 mental health visits, inclusive of mental health visits.
conclusionsGreater dose of mental health visits was associated with lower annual health care costs. Improved screening and adequate treatment of depression has potential to reduce total health care costs among patients with cancer. Because this was a small study, few patients with exceptionally high costs could augment the results. Therefore, replication of these findings, particularly using a clinical trial design, is needed to confirm these effects. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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