Behavioral Health Business January 27, 2023
Substance use disorders (SUD) cost employer-sponsored health plans about $35.3 billion per year.
That’s according to a new JAMA study, which looked at the cost associated with 162 million non-Medicare eligible members with employer-sponsored health insurance in 2018. Researchers reported that of that 162 million, 2.3 million (1.4%) enrollees had a SUD diagnosis.
The study found that the annual attributable mean cost of SUD per participant was $15,640. Alcohol related-disorders cost employer-sponsored plans $10.2 billion, and opioid-related disorders cost $7.3 billion.
“The cost of strategies to support employees and their health insurance dependents to prevent and treat SUDs can be considered in terms of potentially offsetting the existing high medical cost of SUDs,” authors of the study wrote. “Medical expenditures...
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