Overview

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Overview

Evidence & Methods

Take Action

User Help

The Schizophrenia Cost Perspective Engine

Calculate where schizophrenia costs shift across healthcare, social systems, and caregiving.

Interactive national and state intellegence for:

Health
Economists

Policymakers

Advocates

Researchers

Families

For user or technical support, message support@sczaction.org

Total Societal Cost

$366.8B

United States | 2024

Per-Person Cost

$119,436

National Average

Built from S&PAA’s national Total Cost of Schizophrenia research and caregiver burden studies to make hidden costs visible and actionable.

From Insight to Action

Contribute to $COPE 360™

Help expand the understanding of schizophrenia’s societal impact.

$COPE 360™ is designed as a growing national intelligence and research initiative. We welcome opportunities to collaborate with researchers, health systems, policymakers, advocacy organizations, caregivers, foundations, and public-sector partners interested in contributing data, research, lived-experience insights, case studies, or strategic collaboration.

To learn more or explore how to support this initiative, please contact Anne DeGeorge at anne.pappas@sczaction.org

For health research inquiries, message research@scz.org

Methods, Definitions & Guidance

These materials provide additional detail on the methodology, definitions, and guidance for using and interpreting the data.

Turning Cost Data into Insight

We spend enormous resources responding to crisis and consequences, even though those same dollars could achieve far greater impact through humane, integrated care..

$COPE 360™ was created to make the societal costs of schizophrenia visible—at the point where decisions about care, services, and funding actually take shape.

The tool allows users to explore how schizophrenia-related costs are distributed across public systems and private households, including healthcare, housing and homelessness, employment, criminal justice, and unpaid caregiving. It reflects real-world conditions such as wages, service availability, and cost of living, while also allowing costs to be viewed in aggregate to understand the broader national picture.

By presenting this information in an interactive format, the tool is designed to help policymakers, advocates, researchers, and the public better understand not only the scale of the burden, but how gaps in effective care shift costs into less effective, and often more expensive, systems.

Our Partners

With continued support, we can build a more coordinated, evidence-based system of care that prioritizes compassionate, whole-life support for individuals living with schizophrenia and other psychosis spectrum disorders.

To learn more or explore how to support this initiative, please contact Anne DeGeorge at anne.pappas@sczaction.org

$COPE 360™, The Schizophrenia Cost Perspective Engine™, associated analytical frameworks, methodologies, visualizations, and platform content are proprietary to the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance. © 2026 Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance. All rights reserved.

Reproduced from Krasa HB, et al. National and state societal costs of schizophrenia in the US in 2024. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online January 28, 2026.  doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.4383. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.