How to Purchase Depression Care Management
for Your Employees
Depression Care Management (DCM) can produce a return on investment
for many employers through the savings generated by improving workplace
productivity and reducing absenteeism. Employers who provide care
management to employees with depression get better value for their
healthcare dollars because employees get better.
All disease management programs for depression are not the same.
ProCare’s DCM program provides as a minimum all
the necessary components of evidence-based care. With non-clinically
proven programs that do not contain these components, you may fail
to achieve your return on investment.
Disease management programs for depression should include the
following components of evidence-based care:
- Education for patients regarding depression and its treatment.
- 6 monthly outreach calls in the first 6 months.
- 6 quarterly outreach calls between 7-24 months even if the
patient feels better.
- Care Management protocols to contact healthcare professionals
if patients fail to improve or begin to feel worse again.
ProCare evaluates the progress of patients when they start the
program and every 6 months through the length of the program. ProCare’s
program evaluation demonstrates the following:
- Decrease in patient
depressive symptom severity
- Improvement in patient’s overall physical and mental health, physical
and social functioning and ability to work
- High level of customer satisfaction
with the DCM program
- Improvement in the productivity and
work attendance of participating employees
- Cost savings associated
with improved productivity and work attendance
Depression Care Management reduces absenteeism
by 28.4% each year.
Depression Care Management reduces lost productivity at work
by 90.1% each year.
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