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Chunk #15 — RESULTS — Cost of Health Care

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Treatment use and costs among privately insured youths with diagnoses of bipolar disorder.
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Average annual cost of inpatient, outpatient and pharmacy services is summarized in Table 3. Over the course of one year total health care costs averaged $10,372 and family out-of-pocket costs for all services averaged $1,429. Total costs for all mental health services were $7,356, making up over 71% of all health care spending. The largest portion of health care expenditures were made for inpatient mental health visits (26.6%), outpatient mental health visits (20.2%) and psychotropic medications (24.4%) (Figure 1).