Thursday, July 21, 2005

Less than 1 percent of health plan members are diagnosed with alcohol use disorders AMA press release reprinted at EurekAlert, based on the 2005 eValue8 RFI Initiative, which captures voluntarily reported data from more than 250 health plans nationwide - "Less than 1 percent of health plan members are actually diagnosed with alcoholism or related disorders, according to data from a national performance measurement project released today in New York City at the American Medical Association Media Briefing, Alcohol Dependence: From Science to Solutions. Based on general population rates, health plans should be diagnosing at least four or five times as many members with alcohol problems."  
  

Anxiety Is Often an Undiagnosed Obstacle to Mental Health Wellness  eMaxHealth.com story - "The majority of people diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder also experience symptoms of anxiety, yet almost half have not been diagnosed with or treated for an anxiety disorder, according to a new survey conducted by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA). These findings suggest that both patients and physicians are not fully aware of the correlation between anxiety symptoms and other mood disorders: specifically depression and bipolar disorder."