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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adm Policy Ment Health. 2020 May;47(3):451–467. doi: 10.1007/s10488-019-01004-2

Table 3:

Psychotherapy Initiation in the Year Following Initial PTSD Diagnosis among 396,032 Patients with No Psychotherapy Encounters in the 2 Years Prior to PTSD Diagnosis, Fiscal Years 2004–2013; Mean of 7.8 (SD=10.8) psychotherapy encounters.

Quality Standard Any Receipt 8+ Sessions 8+ Sessions, Same Therapist 8+ Sessions in 14 weeks, Same Therapist
Any Psychotherapy: Procedure Codes 86.5% (342,381) 32.2% (127,381) 23.3% (92,374) 13.8% (54,608)
Individual 82.7% (327,358) 21.9% (86,704) 14.6% (57,954) 6.1% (24,050)
Group 28.3% (112,152) 12.6% (49,832) 10.2% (40,346) 7.9% (31,403)
Any Psychotherapy: NLP 59.5% (235,706) 21.8% (86,238) 18.1% (71,789) 11.4% (44,963)
Individual 50.4% (199,543) 11.4% (45,110) 9.9% (39,182) 4.6% (18,176)
Group 25.0% (99,185) 11.1% (44,024) 8.9% (35,124) 6.7% (26,468)
Any EBP: NLP 7.7% (30,593) 2.9% (11,353) 2.5% (9,980) 2.0% (8,058)
Group Cognitive Processing Therapy 2.2% (8.815) 0.8% (3,300) 0.6% (2,226) 0.5% (1,867)
Individual Prolonged Exposure 2.1% (8,227) 0.6% (2,440) 0.6% (2,316) 0.5% (1,913)
Individual Cognitive Processing Therapy 4.7% (18,584) 1.4% (5,375) 1.3% (5,112) 1.0% (4,005)

Note. PTSD=Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; EBP=Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for PTSD; NLP=Natural Language Processing. Yearly trends presented in Appendix 1.