A large-scale evaluation of provider-patient matching in an employer-sponsored mental health program.

Emily J Ward¹, Matt Hawrilenko², Minyu Wu², Jon Novak², Millard Brown², Adam M Chekroud^2,3

¹Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Spring Health, New York, NY, USA. eward@springhealth.com.

²Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Spring Health, New York, NY, USA.

³Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Abstract

Many patients do not improve during their first round of psychotherapy, partly due to variability in the quality of the patient-provider relationship. Matching patients to providers based on providers' historical performance with similar patients offers a proactive, data-driven solution. In a real-world retrospective cohort study, 24,303 participants using a mental health benefit (Spring Health) f…

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