Instant Insights / Mental Health Awareness Month

Employee mental health is becoming an important issue for employers, and one of the ways to help workers is through their employee benefits packages. Here we look at trends, build awareness, and share ideas for benefits managers and brokers.

Analysis

Can treating behavioral health cut medical costs?

GAO analysts reviewed 29 studies that looked at the effects of behavioral health treatment on non-behavioral costs.

By Allison Bell | April 08, 2019 at 10:59 AM

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Helping Americans get treatment for mental health problems and substance use disorders may be the right thing to do, but there’s no firm guarantee it will cut spending on other types of health care, according to analysts at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The GAO is an arm of Congress that helps lawmakers monitor what’s going on in the federal government.

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