Table 3.
Costs for treatment of outpatient depression (from insurer perspective), time in treatment costs, and missed work costs for six months after index antidepressant prescription. Sample is limited to those enrolled in health plan throughout follow up period. Values are in $
| Usual care (n=180)
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Feedback only (n=207)
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Care management (n=188)
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| Mean (SD) | Interquartile range | Mean (SD) | Interquartile range | Mean (SD) | Interquartile range | |||
| Antidepressant prescriptions | 135 (149) | 37-192 | 156 (145) | 33-242 | 167 (159) | 40-260 | ||
| Primary care visits | 134 (81) | 86-181 | 134 (94) | 68-184 | 148 (109) | 68-191 | ||
| Mental health specialty visits | 119 (151) | 0-50 | 114 (114) | 0-50 | 118 (114) | 0-99 | ||
| Intervention programme | 0 | 0 | 10 (0) | 10-10 | 51 (23) | 31-74 | ||
| Total depression treatment costs | 388 (269) | 166-466 | 414 (253) | 198-497 | 484 (269) | 249-583 | ||
| Total health services costs | 1645 (2646) | 408-1568 | 1673 (3072) | 374-1529 | 2327 (8803) | 491-1602 | ||
| Total health services costs (with single outlier removed*) | 1645 (2646) | 408-1568 | 1673 (3072) | 374-1529 | 1729 (3379) | 491-1602 | ||
| Time in treatment costs | 244 (215) | 129-301 | 232 (199) | 86-301 | 249 (194) | 129-301 | ||
*
After removal of single outlier with cost of $112 000 ($85 000 greater than next highest observation).