Chicago—Many businesses are seeing their health care costs rise as diagnoses of psychiatric disability increase among employees. To stem the flow of red ink, employers are looking for ways to control costs associated with providing mental health care for their workers.
Physicians who read these words know that cost cutting in the corporate world usually places a burden on them—it leads to lower reimbursement, fewer allowed therapy sessions, and an emphasis on pharmacotherapy.
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But cost cutting may not be the knee-jerk reaction it once was in the corporate world.
At the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Health Conference this spring, speakers representing some large businesses argued that companies can save overall dollars by increasing resources to treat employees with mental health problems.
Presenters from Bank One Corp of Chicago said their company's goal when placing employees with a psychiatric problem on . . . [Full Text of this Article]
