The Cost of Mental Health Care

"What I see in the behavioral health care literature is associational, that patients with behavioral health conditions often have higher physical health spend," he says. "I truly believe that when I was a third year medical student, which is now more than 20 years ago, one of the presentations I gave on my rotation was depression after myocardial infarction after heart attack." He adds: "If the goal is not to make health care costs go up, then we actually have to prove that we will produce a different financial trajectory"