Health Care Utilization and Spending for Children With Mental Health Conditions in Medicaid.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine how characteristics vary between children with any mental health (MH) diagnosis who have typical spending and the highest spending; to identify independent predictors of highest spending; and to examine drivers of spending groups.

Methods

This retrospective analysis utilized 2016 Medicaid claims from 11 states and included 775,945 children ages 3 to 17 years with any MH diagnosis and at least 11 months of continuous coverage. We compared demographic characteristics and Medicaid expenditures based on total health care spending: the top 1% (highest-spending) and remaining 99% (typical-spending). We used chi-squared tests to compare the 2 groups and adjusted logistic regression to identify independent predictors of being in the top 1% highest-spending group

SUBMITTER: Doupnik SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340572 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature