See Mental Health ROI in Real Time, Backed by the Largest Study of Its Kind

Healthcare costs are climbing, and benefits leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate results. Mental health has long been recognized as essential to workforce wellbeing, but proving its financial impact has remained a challenge.

That changes now.

Spring Health has completed the largest and most rigorous study of mental health ROI ever conducted. The findings are clear: When mental health care is proactive and comprehensive, it not only improves lives, it meaningfully reduces costs.

Here’s what the research shows:

• Without Spring Health: Behavioral health utilization rose 19% year over year, driving up costs.
• With Spring Health: Members accessed care earlier and more effectively, which stabilized utilization by year two and prevented costly repeat episodes.
• Healthcare spending dropped: Total medical costs fell by 4% in year one and 10% in year two, with savings exceeding program costs as early as the third month.
• Physical health costs improved too: Down 9% in year one and 14% in year two, as mental health support helped reduce preventable medical events.

These results confirm what we’ve long believed—better mental health care benefits everyone, including your bottom line.

Introducing Atlas ROI: Clear, Credible Proof of Value

Delivering impact is one thing. Showing it transparently, and on-demand, is another. That’s why we built new ROI tracking capabilities directly into Atlas, Spring Health’s analytics platform for HR and benefits leaders.

Health Plan Savings

The first thing employers want to know is: Are we actually saving money on our health plan?

With Atlas, the answer is finally clear. Health plan savings are front and center, showing how employees who engage in Spring Health care consistently spend less per member compared to those who don’t. Multiply that across an employer’s insured population, and the result is meaningful, measurable savings. And the more people who engage with Spring, the more this number grows over time.

This is something most employers have never seen before: real health plan savings, visible on-demand not buried in a slide deck.

With both actuals and projections available in Atlas, HR and benefits leaders can confidently track current performance while planning for future impact. It’s a new level of financial transparency that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with your outcomes story.

Retention Savings

Replacing employees is expensive, and turnover is often linked to poor mental health. Until now, proving the connection required custom analysis.

With Atlas, you can now:

• Segment data by employee groups to uncover trends
• See how engagement with Spring Health reduces turnover.
• Translate those improvements into real retention savings, with customizable assumptions.
• Give your leadership team a clear picture of how mental health investments strengthen your workforce.

Productivity Reporting

Lost productivity is one of the biggest hidden costs companies face, yet often the hardest to quantify. Atlas takes the guesswork out of it, turning what feels intangible into numbers your finance team can trust.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• Productivity data segmented by employee cohorts or subgroups
• Transparent links between assessment results and productivity outcomes (like reduced absenteeism and presenteeism).
• Estimates tailored to your workforce, with transparent methodology and flexibility to adjust timeframes beyond just annual views.

This makes it easier than ever to share credible, consistent value stories at a time when leaders need to prove that benefits actually work.

Cost Projections and Actuals

Finally, Atlas delivers budget clarity. With cost actuals soon available, customers will be able to see at a glance what they’re spending, why, and how it compares to expectations.

In today’s environment, leaders can’t afford surprises. Atlas gives you predictability and transparency you can count on.

The Future of Mental Health ROI Starts Here

Spring Health is making the value of mental health care more visible, actionable, and trusted than ever before. With the combination of groundbreaking research and powerful analytics, employers now have:

• Evidence they can trust, from the largest behavioral health ROI study to date
• Transparency they can act on, with real-time dashboards in Atlas
• Flexibility they can tailor, with models that reflect their workforce’s needs

Mental health is no longer a “nice to have.” It’s a proven cost containment strategy. And with Spring Health, you can see that value every day.

Watch the Conversation: Contain Costs, Don’t Compromise

We hosted a live conversation on how leading employers are using mental health to drive down costs while supporting their people.

Speakers:

• Michele Harris, Manager, Work Life Systems, Wellstar Health Systems
• Casey Smolka, Head of Actuarial Analytics, Spring Health
• Moderated by Sarah Rosen, VP of Product Marketing, Spring Health

You’ll learn:

• How to identify behavioral health cost drivers in your claims data
• Why “low-cost” vendors often create higher total spend
• How to build trust with your CFO and your employees
• Real-world examples of employers actively bending the healthcare cost trend

Watch now