Behavioral Health Inequities Have Cost the US Health Care System Over $278B

Behavioral health inequities have led to a wave of premature deaths and, in turn, a large cost burden for the U.S. health care system. In fact, the cost burden of premature behavioral health-related deaths in the Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) community was $278 billion alone between 2016 and 2020. That’s according to […]