Dr. Michael L. Schoenbaum

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  www.njamha.org/?sec=1&cat=0&f=news/pressreleases/highco - [Cached Version]
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  Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology and Economics of the National Institute of Mental Health, presented statistics from a national study that found the annual lost earnings amounted to $193.2 billion, which he translated into a $5.6 billion loss for businesses in New Jersey.
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  When individuals with depression receive treatment, the employment rate in this population also increases dramatically: from a 52.5 percent employment rate among individuals with untreated depression to 72.5 percent employment rate among those who are treated for depression, according to Dr. Schoenbaum.

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  Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D. National Institute of Mental Health

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  2004_05 | Depression Programs Might Provide an Edge - [Cached Version]
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  Insurers, for instance, may have an open door to take the lead in putting together better programs and benefits for depression care in Pittsburgh, where a kind of inertia has settled in regarding the condition, according to Michael Schoenbaum, PhD, an economist at the Rand Corp.
  
  While some employers acknowledge the impact of the disease, many have not requested programs from insurers and physicians, in part because employees have not demanded them, according to a study published in Psychiatric Services that polled employers, health plans, and physicians in Pittsburgh.
  
  "We're still not at the point where people are clamoring for access to these programs," says Schoenbaum, the lead author.
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  "The evidence is very strong that strategies to improve care for depression are effective, but effective strategies do raise health costs a little bit -- around $250 per year per depressed person, which translates to about $2 per member per month at the population level," says Schoenbaum, citing an earlier study.
  
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  One way insurers can improve depression care is by paying primary care physicians for care management functions such as regular telephone calls to ensure that patients are taking their medications, a technique that has been proven to work, says Schoenbaum.Health plans also could pay primary care physicians for consulting with specialists about patients, he adds.
  
  "Improvement strategies are centered on how a doctor's office is organized," says Schoenbaum."But if primary care doctors aren't able to bill for phone calls and physician-to-physician consultations, those services are not going to happen systematically.And it's the systematic stuff that works."
  
  President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health last summer recommended that government and private payers make such changes, says Schoenbaum, but he has yet to hear of the suggested policies being implemented.

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  "Comorbid depression ... gets in the way of managing these [chronic] diseases," says Michael Schoenbaum, a health economist at the Rand Corp. in Arlington, Va. "It's hard to get a patient to stop smoking, go on a diet or take their medication if they're depressed."

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  MICHAEL L. SCHOENBAUM, PH.D. Michael Schoenbaum (PhD in Economics, University of Michigan, 1995) is a health and labor economist at the RAND Corporation. He is currently leading analyses of the Palestinian health system, to identify policy options for improving clinical performance and economic viability; and he is leading economic analyses for several large-scale trials to improve care for depresssion. His research has included analyses of the costs and benefits of interventions to improve health care quality, evaluated from the perspectives of patients, providers, taxpayers and society; of the effectiveness of public health interventions, including infant nutrition, immunization, and community healthworker programs; of the social epidemiology and economic consequences of chronic illness and disability; and of health risk behavior, particularly cigarette smoking. Dr. Schoenbaum is also co-developer of RAND's Health Cost and Flexible Spending Account Calculators, web-based modeling and decision-support tools to help consumers make health benefits choices. Prior to joining RAND in 1997, Dr. Schoenbaum spent two years at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in health policy. He is based in RAND's Washington office.

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  Business Group: Prevention & Health Services: Tools... - [Cached Version]
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  Michael Schoenbaum, PhDEconomistRAND Corporation

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  Expanding the Dialogue on the Uninsured Research... - [Cached Version]
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  Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D. Economist

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  Innovation in the Cost-Appropriateness of Behavioral... - [Cached Version]
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  Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D.Economist

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  Michael Schoenbaum, Ph.D.Economist, RAND

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  As Michael Schoenbaum, of the Rand Corporation, in his findings regarding cost-effectiveness writes, "When the same measure of health outcome is used for all interventions, they can be ranked on the basis of their cost-effectiveness ratios.

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