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14 February 2025 - by Katie Matthews, Travis Gray, Stoddard Davenport
We present some thoughts for health plans and plan sponsors on navigating the latest mental health parity rules that take effect this year and in 2026.
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14 December 2022 - by Frederick (Fritz) Busch, Katie Matthews
We examine the appropriateness of the methodologies used by Summus, a virtual specialty care platform, for the company’s analysis of client savings.
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03 August 2020 - by Stoddard Davenport, Matt Caverly, Katie Matthews
The economic costs (both direct and indirect) of nonmedical opioid use are substantial to U.S. employers, not only due to lost productivity, but also due to increased healthcare expenditures, greater costs for workers’ compensation and disability claims, and difficulty meeting recruitment or production targets in regions that experience shortages of workers.
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03 June 2019 - by Katie Matthews, Stephen P. Melek, Ally Weaver
The state of Colorado has implemented behavioral healthcare in primary medical care settings under a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services State Innovation Model Award.
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23 May 2019 - by Katie Matthews, Ally Weaver
Many patients with opioid use disorder have complex healthcare needs, contributing to their significant healthcare costs.
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09 March 2018 - by Stoddard Davenport, Katie Matthews
Over 25 million American adults report suffering from daily chronic pain. The increasing use of opioids in recent years has taken a human toll, leading to a rising number of overdose deaths and diagnoses of opioid use disorder.
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12 February 2018 - by Stoddard Davenport, Katie Matthews, Stephen P. Melek, Doug Norris, Ally Weaver
This report uses healthcare cost and utilization data to project spending estimates for people with chronic medical and comorbid behavioral conditions in 2017.
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22 November 2017 - by Stoddard Davenport, Michael Mager, Katie Matthews, Stephen P. Melek, Daniel Perlman
What has happened to utilization and costs for mental health and substance use disorder benefits as the mental health parity laws and associated rules were slowly rolled out?
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26 October 2017 - by Stoddard Davenport, Katie Matthews, Stephen P. Melek, Daniel Perlman
Nonquantitative treatment limitations continue to be a source of difficulty for many health plans in attaining compliance with the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.