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Better mental health, lower health care costs

Through quality care and early intervention, Modern Health helps members move from high-severity needs to lower levels of need, and health care costs come down with them.

Health care savings per $1 invested

$0.00

Day 1: everyone starts where they are.

Nearly half of members start with low needs, about 4 in 10 with moderate needs, and roughly 1 in 8 with high-severity needs. No savings yet.

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Low severity47 members
Moderate41 members
High severity12 members
  • Started low
  • Started moderate
  • Started high

Where the savings come from

Moderate members0%
High-severity members0%

Source: Modern Health ROI study with Accorded, 13,548 U.S. members, 2023–2024. Starting mix (47/41/12), savings shares and $2.39 are from the study; the timing and which dots move are illustrative.

$2.39 is what we can measure. The full value may run deeper.

Our ROI study counted health care claims only. Better mental health can show up in other places too.

Measured in Modern Health’s ROI study

$2.39 in health care savings for every $1 invested
Health care claims only

Possible additional return · not measured in our ROI study

  • Productivity at work 1

    Workplace costs, like missed work and reduced performance, make up 61% of the U.S. economic burden of depression.

  • Fewer lost workdays 2

    An estimated 12 billion workdays are lost to depression and anxiety worldwide each year.

  • Symptoms that don’t escalate 3

    In one study, most adults with untreated mild depression had major depression four years later.

Items below the waterline are possible additional return, not measured in Modern Health’s ROI study; figures there come from outside research, not Modern Health results. 1. Greenberg et al., PharmacoEconomics, 2021. 2. WHO and ILO, 2022. 3. Weissman et al., Psychiatric Services, 2010.

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