Uncover the Financial Burden of Untreated Behavioral Health

Healthcare organizations are dealing with a costly challenge: undiagnosed behavioral health conditions are draining budgets and undermining patient outcomes, yet most can’t pinpoint where exactly this is happening. Undiagnosed behavioral health conditions hide in the background, leading to more emergency department visits, poor medication follow-through, and expensive hospitalizations. The financial impact? For a 500,000-member healthcare organization, untreated behavioral health needs can balloon from $7 to $35 million in additional costs over just three years.

This eye-opening finding and more can be found in NeuroFlow’s new whitepaper “Hiding in Plain Sight: Addressing the Financial Burden of Undetected Behavioral Health.” What the research shows is striking—55% of individuals with behavioral health conditions get no treatment at all, and they’re driving up overall healthcare costs as a result. The whitepaper digs into how this creates a financial problem that goes beyond mental health services and affects budgets in ways that are hard to predict or plan for.

The good news is that healthcare organizations already have the data they need to identify and intervene with at-risk populations. Buried in claims data, pharmacy records, and EHR systems are patterns that can predict behavioral health crises months before they occur. To help organizations take the first step, NeuroFlow has developed an interactive Behavioral Health Cost Calculator. This tool complements our whitepaper using the same peer-reviewed research methodology to provide personalized cost estimates in just two minutes. Organizations can plug in their population size and current behavioral health programs, and the calculator will show the potential financial impact.

Ready to uncover the hidden costs in your organization? Start with our cost calculator to get a quick sense of your potential risk, then dive into the whitepaper to learn about the strategies other organizations are using to tackle this problem. It’s time to bring behavioral health out of the shadows and into your population health strategy.

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