National Expenditures for Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Treatment 1993 – 2003

Date:

2003

Source:

SAMHSA

The report examines 2003 federal funding for mental health and addiction treatment, and it compares the 2003 expenditures with the previous 10 years.

Key points from the report include:

National expenditures for the treatment of MHSA disorders amounted to $121 billion in 2003, up from $70 billion in 1993.
Spending grew at an average annual rate of 5.6 percent, somewhat slower than spending growth for all health that increased at a 6.5 percent annually on average over the same period.
As a result, MHSA spending as a share of all health spending fell to 7.5 percent of the $1.6 trillion spent on all health services in 2003, from 8.2 percent in 1993.
In 2003, an estimated $21 billion was devoted to treatment of substance use disorders. This amount constituted 1.3 percent of all health care spending.
Private insurance payments on SA treatment grew at an average rate of 0.1 percent annually between 1993 and 2003, compared with the private payment annual growth rate for all health care of 7.3 percent.