Mental Health Service Use and Equity in a Comprehensive Employer-Sponsored Benefit Program: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Graham Baum¹, Matt Hawrilenko¹, Cory Cascalheira¹, Emily J Ward¹, Scott Graupensperger¹, Millard Brown¹, Adam Chekroud^1,2

¹Spring Health, New York, New York, USA.

²Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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Abstract

Geographic and socioeconomic disparities in access to mental health care contribute to overall health inequity. Identifying scalable interventions that expand access to affordable and effective care remains a critical priority. This retrospective cohort study analyzed medical claims and census-level socioeconomic data from 742,658 individuals representing 90.9% of all US counties who were eligible…

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