Utilization and Spending on Mental Health Services Among Children and Youths With Commercial Insurance

Mariah M Kalmin; Jonathan H Cantor; Dena M Bravata; Pen-Che Ho; Christopher Whaley; Ryan K McBain

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.36979

Utilization and Spending on Mental Health Services Among Children and Youths With Commercial Insurance

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Oct 2;6(10):e2336979. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.36979.

Authors

Mariah M Kalmin¹, Jonathan H Cantor¹, Dena M Bravata^{2

3}, Pen-Che Ho², Christopher Whaley¹, Ryan K McBain⁴

Affiliations

¹ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
² Castlight Health, San Francisco, California.
³ Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
⁴ RAND Corporation, Arlington, Virginia.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines telehealth, in-person, and overall pediatric mental health service utilization and spending rates from January 2019 through August 2022 among a US pediatric population with commercial insurance.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Humans
Insurance, Health*
Mental Health Services* / economics

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding