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Wide Variation by State: The average cost of inpatient hospital stays for mental health or substance abuse disorders vary widely from state to state. The average cost of a MH stay in the highest cost state ($13,300) was four times that in the lowest cost state ($2,900).
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News spent eight months investigating this mounting crisis. Their series, Untreated: How Ignoring Mental Illness Costs Us All, shows the cost of mental illness at about $5.4 billion annually, which breaks down to roughly $1,000 for every person in the state.n the first of the series, Jones reports: Medical expenses associated with mental illness reached an estimated $2 billion in Colorado in 2013, according to 2005 figures from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, updated for growth and inflation. Lost wages cost even more.