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Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Aug 17;67(1):101–106. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201400505

TABLE 3.

Mean annual Medicaid expenditures (2008-2009 dollars) for behavioral health services used by 24,271 children, by type of service and psychiatric disorder^a

			Conduct-ODD				ADHD				Other psychiatric disorders
	ASD			Mean estimate^b				Mean estimate^b				Mean estimate^b
Service	Median	Mean estimate^b	Median	Exp (b)	95% CI	p	Median	Exp (b)	95% CI	p	Median	Exp (b)	95% CI	p
In-school individual services	$6,663	1.00	$5,860	.89	.79-1.00	.041	$5,000	.80	.73-.87	<.001	$5,634	.88	.76-1.00	.059
Out-of-school services	$2,637	1.00	$973	.50	.46-55	<.001	$637	.47	.43-51	<.001	$564	.32	30-.35	<.001
Total services	$6,182	1.00	$842	.33	30-.36	<.001	$625	.31	29-.34	<.001	$550	.20	.18-.22	<.001

ASD, autism spectrum disorder; conduct-ODD, conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder; ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Mean estimates (exponentiated beta coefficients) compare expenditures for each group with the reference group (ASD).