TABLE 3.
Disparities predicted between blacks and whites, cost offset, and savings for outpatient mental health care and psychotropic drug usea
| Step 1: disparity estimation |
Step 2: offset estimation per capita ($) |
Step 3: savings estimation (disparity × offset) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure | Disparity (%) | Disparity per population |
Cost per capita ($) |
Savings per capita ($) |
Total savings ($) |
|
| Any outpatient mental health expenditure | ||||||
| ER total expenditure | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | 136.95** | 23.21 | 29,825,633 |
| Mental health | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | 6.10 | — | — |
| General medical | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | 135.25** | 21.51 | 27,641,784 |
| Inpatient total expenditure | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | 762.28** | 648.54 | 833,372,482* |
| Mental health | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | — | — | — |
| General medical | 7.7 | 1,285,003 | 113.74 | 540.83** | 427.09 | 548,810,761* |
| Any psychotropic drug expenditure | ||||||
| ER total expenditure | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | 70.75 | — | — |
| Mental health | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | 3.49 | — | — |
| General medical | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | 72.78 | — | — |
| Inpatient total expenditure | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | — | — | — |
| Mental health | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | — | — | — |
| General medical | 17.5 | 2,924,153 | 99.20 | — | — | — |
a
Dashes indicate no positive offset value or no significant positive offset value for 500 × bootstrap.
*
p<.05
**
p<.01