Claims Servicing Mental Health Patient by Recipient Race and Gender

This dataset provides information related to the claims that serviced mental health patients. It contains information about the total number of patients, total number of claims, and total dollar amount, grouped by recipient race and gender.

Restricted to claims with service date between 01/2016 to 12/2016. Patients with mental health problems is identified by a list of mental health patients matched to their Medicare recipient id from DMHA. ER claims are defined as claims with CPT codes: 99281, 99282, 99283, 99284, and 99285. Providers are billing providers. This data is for research purposes and is not intended to be used for reporting. Due to differences in geographic aggregation, time period considerations, and units of analysis, these numbers may differ from those reported by FSSA.