How deep is the mental health data gap - and who's paying the price?
In this episode of Hope, Power and Healthcare, Chris and Melissa break down MHA's massive dataset on mental healthcare trends, the high societal and personal cost of inequity, and the beginning of a much larger conversation, about Medicare's prior authorization.
Mental Health Inequities Cost Report: https://meharryglobal.org/mental-health-inequities-cost-the-us-more-than-477-billion-today-and-could-increase-to-14-trillion-by-2040-if-unaddressed-according-to-analysis-by-deloitte-and-meharry-school-of-global-health/
MHA's Massive Dataset: https://mhanational.org/data-in-your-community/mha-state-county-data/
For People Building Data Products (Kevin Holland in Health Tech Nerds):https://www.kevintholland.com/pricing-data-points-and-predictions-data-product-pricing-frameworks/
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Hosts:Chris Hemphill - Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com
Melissa Reilly - Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH.
Production:
Edited by Alyssa Schroll
Music by Chris Hemphill